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Abaco

American  
[ab-uh-koh] / ˈæb əˌkoʊ /

noun

  1. two islands Great Abaco and Little Abaco in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2,010 sq. km).


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Brian Hooker told police that he and his wife left Hope Town for Elbow Cay, in the Abaco Islands, on Saturday evening when she fell overboard, taking the boat's keys with her.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

On Great Abaco Island, a solar installation providing a vast majority of power to a group of schools recently came online.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

For example, Thatchpoint Blue Hole on Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas includes evidence of at least 13 hurricanes per century that were Category 2 or above between the years 1500 and 1670.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2022

Nicole became a hurricane Wednesday evening as it slammed into Grand Bahama Island, having made landfall just hours earlier on Great Abaco island as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022

Raaff told me a story of Abaco on this subject.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig