A Coral-Based Archipelago
The Bahamas (that’s with a capital “The”) is one of the most geographically complicated nations of the Atlantic. It’s a coral-based archipelago comprising more than 700 islands — hundreds more if you count the rocky outcroppings that have damaged the hulls of countless ships since colonial days.
Made of more than 100,000 square miles of dry and sometimes barren land, the archipelago comprises The Bahama islands and also, in the south, the Turks and Caicos Islands, which maintain a separate government.11
