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Article: By any name, Paradise Island would be Bahamas' hog heaven.(Travel)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1998
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The Bahamas' Paradise Island is appropriately named - a great improvement on its earlier life as Hog Island.
Paradise Island, like the others in the Bahamas chain, basks in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream just 160 miles southeast of Miami. Like its name, the island has had a checkered past.
In the late 17th century, it was a favorite place for pirates, who found the Bahamas a safe haven between their nefarious activities on the high seas. An early governor, Nicholas Trott, named the small island after Hog Bay, Bermuda, his boyhood home. It is not known whether the island actually was home to hogs.
The name, however, stuck until the ...