Bimini reference

Reference

Pages written to be checked rather than skimmed. Every claim on them traces to a named source, the source is listed at the foot of the page, and anything we could not confirm is said out loud instead of quietly left out.

This is the opposite register to the Stream Journal, which is where we write about the island the way you would actually talk about it. Both are true. Only one is a citation.

• The islands of Bimini

  North, South and East Bimini, the settlements on them, and the district the census actually counts — which reaches a hundred miles south to Cay Sal.

  Population and area from the 2022 census, read out of the source PDF.

• The Bimini Road

  The submerged limestone formation off North Bimini: what the geology shows, where the Atlantis claim came from, and what remains genuinely open.

  Beachrock research and the Cayce prediction, treated separately.

• Endemic and threatened species

  The Bimini boa, the smalltooth sawfish and the lemon shark nursery — status, range, and the law that protects them in Bahamian water.

  Sourced to IUCN, NOAA Fisheries and the gazetted regulations.

• The Compleat Angler

  The Alice Town hotel where Hemingway stayed in the 1930s, the memorabilia on its walls, and the 2006 fire that destroyed it and killed its owner.

  Contemporaneous reporting, with the myth separated from the record.

• The North Bimini development

  The resort development on North Bimini, the mangrove loss that drove opposition to it, and what became of the Save Bimini campaign.

  Including archived material that is now the only surviving record.