The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abaco

ABACO, ä′ba-kō (or Lucaya), Great and Little, two Bahama islands 150 miles west of Florida. Great Abaco, the largest of the Bahamas, is about 80 miles long by 20 wide, with a lighthouse at its southeast point, at a natural perforation of the rock known to seamen as “The Hole-in-the-Wall.” Little Abaco, 28 miles long, lies west of its north point. Area of both, 879 square miles; pop. 2,400.