Hope Town
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Hope Town is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco islands as well as a small village on Elbow Cay, located in Abaco. Golf carts are the main source of transportation, and most of the supplies for the area are brought in by barge each week. In Hope Town, neither cars nor golf carts are permitted in the main part of town. Only bicycles and walking are permitted. Cars and golf carts are permitted on the outskirts of town though. All the buildings that are built must adhere to Bahamian Architecture at the discretion of Town Planning.
[edit] Elbow Reef Light
Hope Town features one of the last operational kerosene-fueled lighthouses in the world. This lighthouse is striped red and white. Its light can be seen from 17 miles away.
The Hope Town Lighthouse is one of only TWO (might be the only one now) Manual Lighthouses left in the World. It has a spring mechanism that has to be hand cranked every several hours to maintain the 5 flash sequence of the light. The Lamp Burns Kerosene Oil with a Wick & Mantle which makes the light that magnifies as it passes through the 5 Lenses which floats on a bed of mercury.
[edit] Hurricanes
Probably Hope Town's most notable hurricane was Hurricane Floyd that hit Hope Town on September 14, 1999 as a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
The seat of the Hope Town District Council is in Hope Town, and most of the meetings are held there.
[edit] External links
- Hope Town is at coordinates Coordinates:
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