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17 unusual facts about Freeport, Bahamas


2009 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics

However, it had to be relocated to Nassau, New Providence, because the reconstruction of the stadium in Freeport could not be completed in time.

This is already the third time, that the event is hosted by the Bahamas, after 1987 in Nassau, New Providence and 2001 in Freeport, Grand Bahama.

Albert Tillman

He opened the world's first dedicated dive resort, The Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO) in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island.

Andre Deveaux

Deveaux was born in Freeport, Bahamas, but he is a naturalized Canadian citizen who was raised in Welland, Ontario.

Colette Bonheur

Colette Bonheur, whose real name is Colette Chailler, is a Quebec singer born in Montreal on September 20, 1927 and died in Freeport (Bahamas) on October 15, 1966.

Collin Mitchell

Collin Mitchell (born September 23, 1969 in Freeport, Bahamas) is a Canadian curler from Brooklin, Ontario.

Frank Lazarus

In 1993, he was a consultant to a University Feasibility Study at the Port Authority of Freeport, Bahamas.

Freeport Jet Wash Jets

The Freeport Jet Wash Jets are one of the four women's GBFL franchises that play in Freeport, Bahamas.

Hawksbill Creek Agreement

The Grand Bahama Port Authority was created to develop and administer the land and thus the city of Freeport was planned and built from scratch.

Luis de Torres

The Luis de Torres Synagogue in Freeport, Bahamas is named after Luis de Torres, and there is a great amount of traditions on his life.

MS Grandeur of the Seas

The remainder of the cruise was canceled and passengers were flown back to their point of origin from Freeport, Bahamas.

MS Maasdam

In April 2006 Maasdam emerged from drydock in Freeport, Bahamas after a multi-million dollar (US) refit.

MV John Hamilton Gray

The vessel operated casino cruises from Freeport, Texas in late 2001 and early 2002 then from Port Aransas, Texas, for the remainder of the 2002 season before being mothballed at Freeport, Bahamas, and placed for sale, following the failure of U.S. Coast Guard safety and U.S. government hygiene inspections.

Satam al-Suqami

On May 19, Suqami and Waleed al-Shehri took a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport, Bahamas where they had reservations at the Princess Resort.

Stars Football League

In Florida, the SFL also proposed a team named the "Orange" (initially in Tampa and then in Fort Pierce) and a team based at South County Stadium in Port St. Lucie, neither of which came to fruition; likewise, the plan to play a game in Freeport, Bahamas's Grand Bahama Stadium also never occurred.

Wallace Groves

Wallace Groves (c. 1902–30 January 1988) was a prominent financier, who, after his release from federal prison in 1944, moved to the Bahamas and there founded and operated the free trade zone, resort, and casino development Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.

ZNS-TV

ZNS-TV's two transmitters - serving Nassau and Freeport - are the only over-the-air TV stations in the Bahamas; the rest of the country gets these channels (and a privately owned station) via Cable Bahamas, a private company which has an exclusive license to operate cable TV services until 2009.


1851 Atlantic hurricane season

A small 90 mph (150 km/h) hurricane was first observed on June 25, about 75 miles (120 km/h) southeast of Freeport, Texas.

1859 Atlantic hurricane season

The reconstruction of its track indicates that the hurricane tracked northward over the extreme eastern tip of Cuba, bringing heavy weather to Baracoa before entering the southeastern Bahamas.

2010 Commonwealth Games medal table

Aliann Pompey of Guyana was promoted to the silver medal position, with the bronze medal going to Christine Amertil of the Bahamas.

Arawak peoples

Scholars believe that the first tribe encountered by Christopher Columbus were Lucayan-Arawak Indians, who lived on the island he called Santa María de la Concepción (known as Mamana by the Lucayan and now called Rum Cay, in the Bahamas).

Bahamas Electricity Corporation

The Bahamas Electricity Corporation - (BEC) is a government corporation that provides electricity to all of the Bahama Islands except for Grand Bahama.

Bahamas Speed Week

The Bahamas Speed Week was a sports car race held in Nassau, Bahamas from 1954 to 1966.

Bar jack

Archaeological evidence from San Salvador Island in the Bahamas demonstrates this species has long been targeted by humans for food, with the native Indians of the region often taking the bar jack for consumption, although it was of lesser importance than reef fishes such as parrotfishes and groupers.

Barna

Notably, Cormac Folan of Freeport in Bearna represented Ireland in Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Brazosport High School

The high school serves Freeport, as well as surrounding Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, and Surfside Beach.

Bre-X

Bob Hasan, another Suharto acquaintance, negotiated a deal whereby Bre-X would have a 45% share, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold would run the mine, and Hasan would get a cut as well.

Cline Paden

The institute offers college-style instruction in Lubbock and a series of satellite schools in forty-six states and in such countries as Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and Trinidad.

Daniel K. Ludwig

These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda; the Bahamas Princess (formerly the King's Inn) and the Xanadu Princess Tower (formerly the International) in Freeport; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.

Dennis Rofe

Since leaving Southampton, Rofe has been engaged as a match summariser on BBC Radio 5, and spent the summer of 2006 working in the Bahamas with Luther Blissett at the annual Premier League Soccer Camp.

Diamonds International

Diamonds International was founded in 1986 on the island of St Thomas and currently operates 129 stores in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Costa Maya, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Juneau, Ketchikan, Key West, Mazatlán, Playa Del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta, San Jose Del Cabo, Skagway, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Turks & Caicos.

E. Clement Bethel

His daughter, Nicolette Bethel, has continued his work and expanded Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas.

Emma Wo

On August 16, 2008, Wo represented Hawaii in the Miss Teen USA 2008 pageant held in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, the first Miss Teen USA pageant held outside the United States.

Fortune Lounge Group

Fortune Lounge was one of the first online casino groups to host its players at land-based sporting and lifestyle events around the world, taking in the Monaco Grand Prix, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Las Vegas and the Bahamas.

Freeport, Nova Scotia

The community is final destination of actor Brad Pitt in the movie World War Z (2013), although this scene was not actually filmed in Freeport but Lulworth Cove in the UK.

Hayley Lever

Throughout his life, he traveled and painted extensively, including Nova Scotia and Grand Manan Island in Canada, the Bahamas and Florida, while often returning to Europe.

Heteromysis actiniae

The anemone mysid is found living in association with the sea anemone Bartholomea annulata in the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern coasts of Mexico and Panama down to a depth of a few metres (yards).

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Currently, there are five countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

HMLA-775

To enhance the squadron's readiness and demonstrate its versatility, HMLA-775 also participated in anti-drug and Border Patrol operations in support of Federal Agencies in locations such as Key West, FL, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Nassau, South America, California, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and Jamaica.

Ingrow

It is the location of the Ingrow Railway Centre with two railway museums: the Museum of Rail Travel owned by Vintage Carriages Trust, and Ingrow Loco, owned by the Bahamas Locomotive Society.

L.L.Bean Signature

L.L.Bean is a privately held mail-order, online and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

Lynn Ullom

Ullom left Cameron in 1987 to accept a teaching job at Lakeland High School in Freeport, Ohio.

Monarchy of the Bahamas

In the Bahamas the legal personality of the State is referred to as "Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Bahamas."

Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships

Bess Marvin won a five-day vacation in the Bahamas and invited Nancy Drew and George Fayne to go with her.

North Luzon West Expressway

Tipo, Hermosa, Bataan
North Luzon Expressway (R-8) in Clark Logistics Area, Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City

Parnell's mustached bat

Historically, it had a wider range as fossil specimens have been collected on the island of New Providence, Bahamas.

Peoli, Ohio

Situated between Newcomerstown and Freeport, it is made up of approximately ten houses and the Peoli Church (1870-c.1991), and the Peoli Cemetery—the final resting place of baseball legend Cy Young.

Pig frog

The species has been introduced and established itself in China, Andros Island and New Providence Island in the Bahamas, as well as Puerto Rico.

Raynaldo Sturrup

Raynaldo Sturrup (born 11 January 1990) is a Bahamian international footballer who plays college soccer for Thomas University, as a goalkeeper.

Samuel Nicholas

Lord Dunmore, with the British force under his command, had collected a store of arms and provisions at New Providence, in the Bahamas, and had done a great deal of injury along the Colonial coast, particularly the shore of Virginia.

Sofia Rudieva

After her victory, she was named Russia's representative in the Miss Universe 2009 contest, which was to be held in the Bahamas in August, 2009.

Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd.

They sued Norwegian Cruise Line under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act after traveling aboard cruise ships (the Norwegian Sea and the Norwegian Star) registered in the Bahamas.

Splashed white

Since the original study in the early part of the last century, in addition to the breeds identified as carrying the SW-1, -2 or -3 alleles, splashed white has also been identified, but not mapped, in American Saddlebreds, Morgan horses, the Irish Tinker or Gypsy horse, the Indian Kathiawari and feral Abaco Barbs of the Bahamas.

Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko

At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 Madison Avenue, and he was living in Freeport, New York on Long Island.

Stuck with You

The music video for "Stuck with You" was filmed in the Bahamas and features Keely Shaye Smith.

The John B. Sails

Alan Lomax included the song in his 1935 collection, Deep River of Song, as "Histe Up The John B Sail"; sung by the Cleveland Simmons Group, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas, July 1935.

Tranquilandia

In the 2006 movie-based game Scarface: The World Is Yours, near the end of the game, the main character was asked by his partner to liberate a vast drug facility in an island offshore Bahamas (the Islands in the game) for him.

Tunnels of Gibraltar

The formation appears to have been laid down in a tropical environment somewhat similar to the Bahamas today, and on the basis of fossil evidence an Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) age has been proposed for the Gibraltar Limestone, though in appearance it has a strong resemblance to the Carboniferous Limestone that underlies large parts of England and Wales.

Visa Waiver Program

Bahamian citizens do not require a visa to enter the United States if they apply for entry at one of the Preclearance Facilities located in Nassau or Freeport International Airports.

William R. Royal

He moved to Manatee County, Florida during the Great Depression and operated a passenger airplane service in the Bahamas and Cuba in the late 1930s.

William Sayle

On the voyage to the Bahamas, a Captain Butler, one of the settlers from England, rebelled against the Articles and caused such trouble in the new settlement that William Sayle left the original settlement in north Eleuthera for the nearby island of St. George's Cay, now known as Spanish Wells.

Winston Saunders

Having attended the Bahamas Teachers’ College, Saunders obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics from the University of London in 1964.