Qualla: Egg Island https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/9/2/egg-island-the-bahamas-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Egg Island https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas Egg Island: Introduction https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. There are no chickens on Egg Island. The name persists anyway, a small mystery attached to a very small place. One theory holds that residents of nearby islands once kept chickens here and rowed over to collect the eggs. Another suggests that early settlers gathered sea bird eggs from its shores until introduced goats wiped out the nesting colonies. Either way, the island measures just 800 square meters - smaller than many suburban lots - and no one lives here. What Egg Island lacks in size, it makes up for in stubborn ecological importance and an outsized talent for attracting attention.

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]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/9/2/egg-island-the-bahamas-wp/dk92-egg-island-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Egg Island: The Crescent and the Reef https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Egg Island's crescent-shaped beach curves around a lagoon protected by a surrounding reef that breaks the open Atlantic swells before they reach shore. Behind the reef, the water rarely exceeds two meters in depth, creating a warm, sheltered pool where the sunlight reaches straig...

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]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/9/2/egg-island-the-bahamas-wp/dk92-egg-island-the-crescent-and-the-reef.mp3 0:06 2 full Egg Island: Where Columbus Landed, Maybe https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the 1980s, a researcher named Arne Molander made a provocative claim: Egg Island was Guanahani, the first land Columbus touched in his 1492 voyage to the New World. The debate over Columbus's exact landfall has occupied historians for centuries, with San Salvador, Samana Cay, ...

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]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/9/2/egg-island-the-bahamas-wp/dk92-egg-island-where-columbus-landed-maybe.mp3 0:06 3 full Egg Island: The Mouse That Didn't Roar https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. When Disney Cruise Line began exploring Egg Island as a potential cruise ship port, the plan called for dredging the seabed, drilling through coral reef, and building infrastructure capable of handling the largest vessels in the Disney fleet. For residents of Spanish Wells and no...

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]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/k/9/2/egg-island-the-bahamas-wp/dk92-egg-island-the-mouse-that-didnt-roar.mp3 0:06 4 full Egg Island: The Wreck Below https://qualla.com/egg-island-the-bahamas/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Offshore, in the deeper water beyond the reef, the wreck of the Arimoroa rests on the seabed. The ship has become an artificial reef in its own right, its rusting hull colonized by corals, sponges, and schools of fish that treat the structure as home. Divers visit the site regula...

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