Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
New Providence
The Bahamas' main island: Nassau, Paradise Island resorts, straw markets and the country's political and tourism core.
- Formation
- low limestone platform island with Lake Killarney inland
- Population
- 296,522
- Water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Access
- easy
Every required movement
The passage
to New Providence.
Fly into Nassau's Lynden Pindling International from the US, Canada, UK and Caribbean; cruise ships dock at Prince George Wharf.
- 01Lynden Pindling International (NAS)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Bahamas Ferries to Eleuthera, Exuma, Andros; cruise lines at Prince George Wharf.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
Visa-free for many nationalities; US pre-clearance at NAS.
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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Small but dominant island holding nearly three-quarters of the Bahamian population. Founded as Charles Town in 1670 and renamed Nassau in 1695, it was a pirate haven before becoming the colony's capital; tourism and finance drive it today.
Lucayan homeland; English settlement 17th c.; pirate republic era; loyalist plantations; Bahamian independence 1973.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 25.05° N · 77.40° W
- Sovereignty
- Bahamas · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Florida (~300 km northwest)
- Best recorded window
- December–April (dry, cooler).
- Permits / entry
- Visa-free for many nationalities; US pre-clearance at NAS.
- Languages
- English, Bahamian Creole
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