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Information about Abaco Island Bahamas North America
Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Gorda Cay, (Castaway Cay), Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Great Stirrup Cay, Walker's Cay, Moore's Island and Sandy Point. Administratively, Abaco Islands constitute five of the 31 Districts of the Bahamas: North Abaco, Central Abaco, South Abaco, Moore's Island, and Hope Town. Towns include Marsh Harbour, Hope Town, Treasure Cay, Coopers Town, and Cornishtown.
Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave tells that, before the 1970s, a group of American businessmen, arms traffickers, supporters of free enterprise, a black agent of the information services, and a MP of the British House of Lords planned the independence of Abaco. Or, in another version, it would have a UK dependency status similar to that of Anguilla. They would promise one acre (4,000 m²) to each of the natives on the island. This would have left thousands of acres for realtors and their financial backers. At least one flag was designed, combining the Hope Town Lighthouse with a Union Flag. Abaco would end as a utopia for businessmen fearing socialism. The British government had no interest in this scheme, which in any case would have been strongly opposed by the legitimate national government in Nassau. Finally, the locals did not support the plan, perhaps because unspoken racial issues are alleged to have mixed into it. In any event, the Abaco Independence Movement seems to have died a peaceful death around 1975.
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