Abaco

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Meaning

Proper Noun

  • The Abaco Islands, an island and cays group in the north of the Bahamas.

Origin

  • From an earlier form Habacoa (found on Juan de la Cosa's map of 1500). In the 1500s they were also called Iucayonique, probably after the Lucayans who inhabited them.

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