Getting Oriented

The southernmost Bahamas islands are remote, exposed to the open Atlantic, and ruggedly dramatic. One hundred and thirty miles southeast of Nassau, Cat Island lies to the west of diminutive San Salvador, about the size of Manhattan. Long Island, which is indeed long, stretches 80 mi across the Tropic of Cancer, due south of Cat Island. Windswept Crooked and Acklins islands, each with about 400 residents, are southeast of Long Island. And way down at the southernmost point of the country is Inagua, only 55 mi northeast of Cuba and 60 mi north of Haiti.