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Eleuthera: Beach Heaven

The Bahamas is a massive archipelago, with around 700 islands, only 30-odd of which are inhabited. Eleuthera is just one of these, lying about 50 miles to the east of New Providence, the island home to Nassau, the country’s capital. Eleuthera is a long slender snake of an island, 110 miles long and about two miles wide at average.

Though development continues on the island, all developments on Eleuthera are low-density. Nothing over two stories is allowed, and all sizeable new buildings are required to supply their own power and invest in the local workforce. The Bahamanian government has ...

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