Bimini islands

The islands Bimini are an archipelago and a District of the Bahamas which are composed of two principal islands: North Bimini and South Bimini.

Bimini are to approximately 80 km in the east Miami Beach.

The islands are known especially like a high-place of fishing. As the Bimini islands are distant only 80 km from Miami (Florida), the archipelago accommodates many American fishermen coming in boat. The diving is there also an activity popular, many wrecks of ships lying in water neighborhood.

Geography

North Bimini

North Bimini has the shape of hook and measurement approximately 12 km length for a very variable width. The principal villages are Alice Town, a succession of stores, restaurants and bars the length of the main road (" The King' S Highway") and Bailey town.

South Bimini

The island of South Bimini, as for it, shelters a track and two hotels and offers a more peaceful alternative to North Bimini. It is approximately 6,5 km long and 1,6 km broad.

Characteristics of the archipelago

On the Bimini islands, many places are famous mysterious being. The majority of these mysteries lend to many speculations. Most known of them is Bimini Road.

Bimini Road

Between 1939 and 1940, the American medium Edgar Cayce, in a very detailed prediction, affirmed that remainders of the Atlantis would be found in 1968 or in 1969 front coasts of the Bimini islands. In September 1968, of the blocks of stone aligned on eight hundred meters, called " The Bimini Road" , are discovered with broad of Paradise Point to North Bimini.

After 10 underwater forwardings, started in 1974, the historian David Zink acquired the conviction that these stones are Mégalithe S set up by the man. Gavin Menzies, the author of the book 1421: The Year Clouded Discovered America (1421: The year when China discovered America), think that they could be drawn up by shipwrecked men Chinese.

The Archeologist S William Donato and Greg Little, them, are convinced, after 2 forwardings, that these stones belonged to a culture now disappeared.

Other theories explain why these stone alignments were born from the effect of the tides, or although they are a natural geological formation.

There does not exist any certainty as for knowing at present if these stones are the remainders of a disappeared civilization, the work of shipwrecked men where a geological phenomenon natural, and the question remains whole.

Fountain of Youth

The facts on Juan Sandpapers of León and its research of the Fountain of Youth is as mysterious as the source itself. One does not know who Arawaks or, their ancestors the Indians Taino told their history with Juan Ponce of León. However, the two versions of the history of the natives speak about a country called " Beemeenee" , where the source is supposed to be. While forwarding brought of León in Florida, of the rumors would like that the source can be in the natural swimming pools of South Bimini.

The Healing Hole

The Healing Hole (the hole which cures) was discovered in the salted mangrove which covers North Bimini. It is about a water hollow which is at the end of an underground grid of natural water pipelines. At the time of the low tide, a fresh water, cold and very mineral-bearing is pumped by this network of conduits. This water is rich in Lithium and Soufre, and is famous to have a positive effect on the mental health and physical of the bathers.

Others

During the Prohibition with the the United States, the Bimini islands was a turntable of the traffic of Rhum of smuggling.
a blue marlin of 250 kg caught close to these islands would have inspired Ernest Hemingway to write The Old Man and the Sea and Îles with the drift .
the last scene of the film the Silence of the lambs is held at the aerodrome for Hydravion of North Bimini.
flight 101 of the Chalk' S Ocean Airways was on the way for the Bimini islands when it crashé on December 19th 2005; at least 11 inhabitants of Bimini died in the accident.
on January 13rd 2006, one of the principal bars of Bimini, The Compleat Angler, entirely burned at the time of a fire. This bar was especially known for the photographs of Ernest Hemingway which decorated the walls of them; these photographs are lost today.

Sources

Cayce, Edgar Evans. Edgar Cayce one ATLANTIS, Warner Books, 1988. ISBN: 0446351024
Menzies, Gavin. 1421: The Year China Discovered America, To grip Perennial; 1st Perenn edition, 2004. ISBN: 006054094X
Zinc, Dr. David. The Stones off ATLANTIS, Prentice to resound Trade, in 1978. ISBN: 0138469237

External bonds

Atlantis with Bimini
Tourist office of the Bahamas - islands Bimini

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