Harbour Island, Bahamas

Pink Sand Beach, Harbour Island, Bahamas
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Author: Larry Deack


Harbour Island is a small island off the northeast coast of Eleuthera Island, in the Bahamas. Compared to Eleuthera, Harbour Island is tiny. It became an island with its link with Eleuthera was broken.

The only town on Harbour Island is Dunmore Town, named after John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmare, who served as Governor of the Bahamas from 1786 to 1798. The island has become a popular tourist destination for those attracted to its tranquility (which is nontheless broken during the Junkaroo parade on Boxing Day and New Year's Day).

Most visitors to Harbour Island (which is called Briland by the locals) arrive at the North Eleuthera Airport, then taken a water taxi across to the island. Harbour Island is famous for its Pink Sand Beach, so named as the sand appears pinkish in the sun.

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