Harbour Island is an island and administrative district 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 North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...
and is located off the northeast coast of
Eleuthera Island. It has a population of 1,762 (2010 census).
HARBOUR ISLAND POPULATION BY SETTLEMENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCUPIED DWELLINGS: 2010 CENSUS
- Bahamas Department of Statistics
The only town on the island is Dunmore Town
Dunmore Town is a town in the Bahamas. It has a population of 1,762 (2010 census).
It is the only town at Harbour Island (Bahamas), Harbour Island, which is located just east from North Eleuthera.
Dunmore Town is one of the few settlements in t ...
, named after the governor of the Bahamas from 1786 to 1798, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, who had a summer residence on Harbour Island.
Tourism
Harbour Island is famous for its pink sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class o ...
beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc sh ...
es, which are found all along the east side of the island.
The pink hue comes from foraminifera, a microscopic organism that actually has a reddish-pink shell.
Harbour Island is a popular vacation destination for Americans. Known as Briland to the locals, Harbour Island is colourful with English Colonial-style buildings and flower lined streets. Harbour Island is part of the Out Islands of the Bahamas.
In the middle 1960s, the American actor Brett King and his wife, Sharon, established the Coral Sands Hotel in Harbour Island.
Transportation
The island is accessible by airplane through North Eleuthera Airport, followed by a short water taxi
A water taxi or a water bus is a watercraft used to provide public or private transport, usually, but not always, in an urban environment. Service may be scheduled with multiple stops, operating in a similar manner to a bus, or o ...
ride from neighbouring North Eleuthera.
Gallery
File:HarbourIsland_1.png, Pink sand beach near Sip Sip's, Harbour Island, looking north
File:islandhorses.jpg, Horses on Harbour Island, looking east
File:beachsunsetdog.jpg, Sunset on Harbour Island, looking north
File:harbourislandjunkanoo.jpg, Dunmore School kids in Junkanoo 2008, Harbour Island, looking east
File:GovernmentDock.png, Sunset over Government Dock and harbour, Harbour Island, looking west from Dunmore School
File:DunmoreSchool.png, Dunmore School of Harbour Island, looking east from harbour shoreline
File:sunriseoct62008.png, Sunrise, October 6, 2008, from the north part of the island
File:SeaGrapes.jpg, Afro Band Rehearsing at Sea Grapes Night Club on Harbour Island
File:starfishwater.jpg, Starfish in the harbour on Harbour Island
File:Bahamas beach.JPG, The pink beach of Harbour Island
References
Sources
*''The Harbour Island Story'', Anne & Jim Lawlor (Macmillan Caribbean, 2008)
*''The Story of The Bahamas'', Paul Albury (Macmillan Caribbean, London, 1975)
*''Out Island Doctor'', Evan Cottman
*''Under The plop o lop Tree'', Pip Simmons, editor; 'Uncle Gundy' narrator, Barbra Young Photographs
*''99-Cent Breakfast'', Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
*''Bahamian Scene'', Susan J. Wallace
*''Wind From The Carolinas'', Robert Wilder
*''Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People - Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery'', Michael Craton and Gail Saunders (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1999)
Districts of the Bahamas
Islands of the Bahamas
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