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The Commonwealth of the Bahamas consists of more than 30 inhabited and many uninhabited cays and rocks off the S.E. coast of Florida. They are the surface protuberances of two oceanic banks, the Little Bahama Bank and the Great Bahama Bank. Of the groups, about 700 areas might be classified as islands : the rest only as rocks. Land area, 5,386–25 sq. miles (13,590 sq. km). The total rainfall (New Providence) in 1969 was 54–52 in. ; highest in June (20–35 in.). Average winter temperature, 69–9° F. (21–1° C); average summer temperature, 82–8° F. (28–2° C).
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Annual Report, 1968–69. HMSO, 1969
Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Statistical Abstract, 1970–71. Nassau, 1972
Craton, M. A., A History of the Bahamas. London, 1962
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Paxton, J. (1973). The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271029_7
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