Elbow Cay
Five-mile-long cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the cay in the Abaco Islands. For the cays in Bimini District, see Elbow Cays.
Elbow Cay is an five-mile-long (8.0-kilometre) cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. Originally populated by British loyalists fleeing the newly independent United States of America in 1785, it has survived on fishing, boat building, and salvage. Its main village of Hope Town surrounds a protected harbor with a noted red-and-white-striped one-hundred-and-twenty-foot-tall (37-metre) lighthouse built in 1863. On September 1, 2019, Elbow Cay took a direct hit from Category 5 Hurricane Dorian, with sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h). The lighthouse survived.
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Location | Atlantic Ocean |
Coordinates | 26°31′37″N 76°58′05″W |
Type | Cay |
Archipelago | Lucayan Archipelago |
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