- Source: Plana Cays
The Plana Cays are a group of two small uninhabited islands in the southern Bahama Islands, located east of Acklins Island and west of Mayaguana Island. The indigenous Lucayan people called the islands Amaguaya, meaning "toward the middle lands".
The eastern cay was the last natural habitat of the Bahamian Hutia, a species of rabbit-sized rodent. It was thought to be extinct until 1966, when a population was found on the Plana Cays by biologist Garrett Clough. Hutias have since been transplanted from the Plana Cays to other parts of the Bahamas.
The Plana Cays have been suggested as the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in the New World.
References
Atrill, Rod (2000). "The Southern Bahamas". www.bahamaswildlife.fsnet.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2005.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pelayaran Christopher Columbus
- Plana Cays
- Plana
- Guanahani
- Acklins
- Voyages of Christopher Columbus
- Christopher Columbus
- Bahamian hutia
- Leiocephalus greenwayi
- Lucayan Archipelago
- List of islands of the Bahamas
