The Bahamas is a cluster of about 700 large islands and other smaller areas in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. In this exotic paradise, there is an island named … Andros. In fact, it is the largest island in the cluster and is 190 km southeast of the Florida Peninsula.

The capital of the Bahamish Commonwealth is Nassau, in the homonymous island, while the second largest city in the island state, Friport, is the island of Grand Bahama.

Andros from… Sir Edmund Andros

Andros in the Bahamas, politically considered an island of Greece, in fact consists of 3 islands – northern Andros, Mangrove Cay and southern Andros – with a total area larger than all other 700 islands of Bahames together, with nature that is organizing, exotic beaches and wildlife.

As for the Greek name of the exotic island, it is in fact nothing to do with Greece.

Native residents called the island of Habacoa (or Babucca) and the Spanish conquerors renamed it to Espiritu Santu.

On the island of Andros, his current name was given at some point early during the British colonialism.

The name is believed to be in honor of Sir Edmund Andros, Commander of the Forces of his Majesty in Barbados in 1672, and ruler in succession of New York, Massachusetts and New England.

In addition, in several 18th -century British documents it is referred to as the island of Andrews Island while a British map of 1782 refers to the island as San Andreas.

The exotic ‘free’ of the English

In addition to… Andros, the Bahamas have another island – the 7th in size – with a Greek name. It is called Eleuthera and is located 80 kilometers east of Nassau. It has an area of ​​518 sq. Km. and a population of 11,165 inhabitants (2000) and the main settlement of the island is Governor’s Harbour.

His name comes from the feminine form of the Greek surname “Free” and is said to have received it from the first European settlers to arrive on the island in 1638 from Bermuda: the “Eleutherian Adventurers” a religious group of English Puritan.