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{{Short description|Island and District in the Bahamas}}
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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = District of Crooked Island and Long Cay
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|population_total = 305<ref>{{cite web |title=Census population and housing |url=https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |website=Bahamas Gov |access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref>
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'''Crooked Island''' is an island and [[Districts of the Bahamas|district]], part of a group of [[The Bahamas|Bahamian islands]] defining a large, shallow lagoon called the [[Bight of Acklins]], of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and [[Acklins]] in the south-east, and the smaller are [[Long Cay]] (once known as Fortune Island) in the north-west, and [[Castle Island, Bahamas|Castle Island]] in the south.
== Etymology ==
The indigenous [[Lucayan people]] called the island ''Jumento'', meaning "upper land of the middle distance".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ahrens |first=Wolfgang P. |date=2015 |title=Naming the Bahamas Islands: History and Folk Etymology |url=https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14910 |journal=Onomastica Canadiana |language=en |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=101 |issn=2816-7015}}</ref> Meanwhile, the [[Spaniards|Spaniard]] explorers had named the island ''Isabella''.<ref name=":0" />
==History==
The islands were settled by American [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist]]s in the late 1780s who set [[cotton plantation]]s using over 1,000 [[slavery|slaves]]. After the [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolition of slavery]] in the [[British Empire]] these became uneconomical, and the replacement income from [[sea sponge|sponge]] diving has now dwindled as well. The inhabitants now live by fishing and small-scale farming.
It is believed that the first Post Office in the Bahamas was at [[
==Population==
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==Transportation==
The island is served by [[Colonel Hill Airport]].
== Politics ==
The island is part of the [[MICAL (Bahamas Parliament constituency)|MICAL constituency]] for elections to the [[House of Assembly of the Bahamas]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scott |first=Rachel |date=2021-05-31 |title=Moultrie: MICAL should be two seats |url=https://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/moultrie-mical-should-be-two-seats/article_1649ee25-bbef-50ca-9ecf-6efa5211288c.html |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=The Nassau Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Islands of the Bahamas]]
[[Category:Districts of the Bahamas]]
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