Little Inagua National Park is a

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

on and around

Little Inagua Little Inagua is a small remote island in the Bahamas. It is the largest uninhabited island in the Caribbean. The island remains in an undisturbed and natural state. In 2002, it became part of Little Inagua National Park. See also *Inagua *L ...

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 ...

. The reserve was established in 2002 and has an area of , including the island and its surrounding waters.

Flora and fauna

The park is a nesting site for

sea turtle Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. The seven existing species of sea turtles are the flatback, green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, ...

s, and the surrounding waters are important queen conch (''

Aliger gigas ''Aliger gigas,'' originally known as ''Strombus gigas'' or more recently as ''Lobatus gigas'', commonly known as the queen conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family of true conches, the Strombidae. This s ...

'') larval habitat.

References

National parks of the Bahamas Inagua {{Bahamas-geo-stub