Published on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Robert Nickel
The 29 islands that make up the country known as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas are located in the Atlantic Ocean just south of the Florida panhandle. The same chain of islands is also home to the countries of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. All the islands in the region are low, flat and rise no higher than 66 feet from sea level. Therefore the need for st...