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Bahama (song)

"Bahama" is a song in Icelandic language and a big 2008 summer hit for the Icelandic music formation Ingó og Veðurguðirnir showcasing Ingó Söngur on main vocals. The song also appears as track #2 on Ingó og Veðurguðirnir's 2009 album Góðar stundir.

The song stayed at the top of Tónlist, the official Icelandic Singles Chart for 8 consecutive weeks, i.e. chart 19/2008 to chart 26/2008

Bahama (disambiguation)

Bahama or Bahamas are the name of the country officially known as The Bahamas

Bahama may also refer to:

  • Bahama (song), a 2008 Icelandic-language single by Ingó og Veðurguðirnir
  • Bahama Banks, the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago
  • Bahama oriole (Icterus northropi), species of bird in the Icteridae family which is endemic to the Bahamas
  • Bahama, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in northern Durham County

Bahamas may also refer to:

  • Bahamas (musician), real name Afie Jurvanen (born 1981), a Canadian musician
  • Bahamasair, airline based in Nassau, Bahamas
  • Bahamas Stakes, American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in Hialeah, Florida
  • HMBS Bahamas (P-60), Offshore Patrol Vessel operated by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force
  • , a frigate which served in the British Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946

See also
  • Grand Bahama, northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas

Usage examples of "bahama".

The northwestern shore of Hispaniola, lying as it does at the eastern outlet of the old Bahama Channel, running between the island of Cuba and the great Bahama Banks, lay almost in the very main stream of travel.

Here they found exactly what they needed--a good harbor, just at the junction of the Windward Channel with the old Bahama Channel--a spot where four- fifths of the Spanish-Indian trade would pass by their very wharves.

II For the better part of five months Mainwaring cruised about in the waters surrounding the Bahama Islands.

The name of the Yankee became a terror to every sea wolf in the western tropics, and the waters of the Bahama Islands became swept almost clean of the bloody wretches who had so lately infested it.

The first of these was the water-logged remains of a burned and still smoking wreck that he found adrift in the great Bahama channel.

At that time one of the chief rendezvous of the pirates was the little island of San Jose, one of the southernmost of the Bahama group.

Here, in the days before the coming of the Yankee, they were wont to put in to careen and clean their vessels and to take in a fresh supply of provisions, gunpowder, and rum, preparatory to renewing their attacks upon the peaceful commerce circulating up and down outside the islands, or through the wide stretches of the Bahama channel.

They had opted to dive the reefs and view the coral, having had their fill of underwater caverns on Grand Bahama Island.

He come there to the bar at the Bahama Room, and I messed up a routine awful when I saw him watching us.

It seemed possible he might figure on getting inside, in on the Bahama Bank and dropping the hook, and then heading on for the Berry islands at first light.

But the ship was too fast and there was nowhere to hide in the open sea despite the fact that the Bahama Islands lay just over the horizon.

West India pirates was at New Providence Island in the Bahama Islands, occupied to-day by the flourishing town of Nassau, now the headquarters of those worthy descendants of the pirates, the bootleggers, who from the old port carry on their exciting and profitable smuggling of whisky into the United States.

Bendall, amongst others, was off once again to carry on piracy around the Bahama and Virgin Islands.

The proprietors of the Bahama Islands turned Clarke out and appointed in his place Robert Lilburne in 1682.

He succeeded in defeating three armed ships in the Bahama Channel, which had been sent to take him, and he massacred all the Spaniards of European birth that he found among the crews.