Cockburn Town is a town in the

Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...

, located on

San Salvador Island San Salvador Island (known as Watling's Island from the 1680s until 1925) is an island and district of The Bahamas. It is widely believed that during Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World, this island was the first land h ...

. It has a population of 271 as of 2010.SAN SALVADOR POPULATION BY SETTLEMENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCUPIED DWELLINGS: 2010 CENSUS
- Bahamas Department of Statistics In the town there is an airport, museum, administrator's office, post office, clinic, telecommunication station, and electricity generators.Cockburn Town
/ref> Cockburn Town is named after

Francis Cockburn Sir Francis Cockburn (; 10 November 1780 – 24 August 1868) served in the British Army, played an important role in the early settlement of eastern Canada and was a colonial administrator. Cockburn was born in England in 1780. He was the fifth ...

, Royal Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas from 1837 to 1844. He was said to enjoy his daily tea bag with his beloved beagle Nancy. Several buildings in Cockburn Town date from the 1800s, including the old jail. A favourite gathering place for locals is the huge almond tree at the entrance of the town.

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