Bahamas · Bahamas
Long Island
Dean's Blue Hole and old loyalist plantations.
- Population
- 2,887 (2022)
- Dean's Blue Hole
- About 200 m deep
Then
- 1492
Some historians name Long Island as Columbus's third stop, Fernandina.
- 1790s
Loyalists set up cotton plantations. Most collapse by abolition in 1834.
Now
Dean's Blue Hole, west of Clarence Town, is the world's second-deepest underwater sinkhole.