Nicholas Channel

Nicholas Channel
Nicholas Channel
	Bahamas

Nicholas Channel (also

Bahamas.^[1]

Geography

Part of the
Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago off Cuba's north shore and to the east by the Old Bahama Channel
.
Geography of this location can be described as follows:
Both the Little and the Great Bahama Banks have their edges towards the Atlantic. These gulfs and channels are full of islands and rocks which with some others farther south are comprehended under the general name of the Bahama Islands. The Key Sal Bank which turns the gulf stream to the north and sends it to the Straits of Florida lies between the Great Bahama Bank and Cuba between 23 and 24 N lat and is divided from the former by the Santarem Channel and from the latter by Nicholas Channel which unite farther to the south east and take the name of Old Bahama Channel. Key Sal Bank is of no great extent and contains few rocks and islets.[2]

References

^ Nicholas Channel: Bahamas, The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, US

^ George Long, George Richardson Porter, George Tucker, Wilhelm Wittich. America and the West Indies: geographically described page 11. Publisher: C. Knight and Co., 1845

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[1] Nicholas Channel: Bahamas, The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, US

[2] George Long, George Richardson Porter, George Tucker, Wilhelm Wittich. America and the West Indies: geographically described page 11. Publisher: C. Knight and Co., 1845

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