Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before training to become a journalist. He covers a wide range of topics including space exploration, planetary science, space weather, climate change, animal behavior, evolution and paleontology.
What's in the photo? A string of islands, or cays, interspersed with deep tidal channelsWhen was it taken? July 15, 2015
Exuma contains more than 360 individual islands and is located to the west of most of the other larger Bahamian islands. As a result, the Indigenous Lucayan people, who were enslaved and removed from the islands by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, referred to the region as Curateo, meaning"outer far distant land."
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