| 词条 | Elbow Cays |
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| name = Elbow Cays | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = Los Roques | image_skyline = Cay sal.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = View of the Elbow Cays. The semi-ruined lighthouse of North Elbow Cay can be seen in the background. | nickname = | settlement_type = Cays | coordinates = {{coord|23|57|N|80|27|W|display=inline,title}} | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Bahamas | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = The Bahamas | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 =Cay Sal Bank, Bahama Banks | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 =Bimini | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | named_for = | government_type = | governing_body = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_rank = | area_total_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_total = uninhabited | population_as_of = | population_rank = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_footnotes = | demographics_type1 = Languages | demographics1_title1 = Official | demographics1_info1 = English | timezone1 = EST | utc_offset1 = −5 | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code_type = | area_code = | registration_plate = | website = | footnotes = }}{{Infobox lighthouse | name = Cay Sal | image_name = IMRAY(1884) p0216 BAHAMAS, CAY SAL LIGHTHOUSE.jpg | image_width = | caption = Old drawing of the lighthouse. Although known as 'Cay Sal Lighthouse', it was not located on Cay Sal Island | location = Cay Sal Cay Sal Bank Bahamas | pushpin_map = Bahamas | relief = 1 | pushpin_map_caption = Bahamas | pushpin = lighthouse | pushpin_label_position = | coordinates = {{coord|23|57|12.6|N|80|26|42.0|W|display=inline}} | coordinates_footnotes = | yearbuilt = 1839 | yearlit = | automated = | yeardeactivated = 1940s | foundation = | construction = stone tower | shape = cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern | marking = unpainted and ruined tower | height = {{convert|18|m|ft}} | focalheight = | lens = | currentlens = | lightsource = | intensity = | range = | characteristic = | fogsignal = | racon = | admiralty = | canada = | NGA = | ARLHS = BAH-018[1] | USCG = | country = | countrynumber = | countrylink = | managingagent = | heritage = | module = }} The Elbow Cays ({{lang-es|Los Roques}})[2] are uninhabited cays in the Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas. They are part of a reef shelf located at the northwestern end of the bank about 80 km (50 mi) off the Cuban coast and 130 km (80 mi) southeast of Key West, Florida. These cays are an excellent scuba diving spot.[3] The Elbow Cays are the westernmost group on the reef, running southwest to northeast along the Straits of Florida. The southernmost cays of this group consist of unnamed islets and rocks. Northeast of these are South Elbow Cay (the westernmost named cay of Cay Sal Bank) and North Elbow Cay, the latter sometimes known just as Elbow Cay ({{lang-es|Cayo Codo}}).[3] North Elbow Cay, which is the largest and highest of the cays, is marked by a disused conical stone lighthouse, which is {{convert|17.7|m|0|abbr=out}} high. The site is open for visitors, but the ruined tower is accessible only by boat and reaching it is extremely hazardous.[5] GeographyThe compact cluster of islets, rocks and reefs formed by Elbow Cays, Crenula Cay, Double Headed Shot Cays, Water Cays and Marion Rock, among other unnamed features, was named by the Spanish as Los Roques. These northwestern cays gave their name to the whole bank, which is known as Placer de los Roques, in the Spanish language.[4] Adjacent islands and rocks
HistorySpanish navigators visited the island, plotting it for the first time on a map in 1511 as Los Roques. The island and its atoll were subsequently claimed for the Spanish crown by Juan Ponce de León.[3] The island was under the Spanish rule for about two centuries until 1718 when the Bahamas became a Crown colony of the British Empire. A tall stone lighthouse was built by the British on the island of North Elbow Cay in 1839 along with some small buildings.[7] It marked the southern entrance to the Florida Straits from the Gulf of Mexico and was active until the 1940s. The abandoned lighthouse was briefly reactivated during the 1970s, when Bahamas police set up a post on nearby Cay Sal Island to watch for drug smugglers.[8] Many Cubans attempting to cross the Straits of Florida on makeshift boats and rafts reached this cay and wrote their names in the ruins of the lighthouse.[7] CartographyIn ancient maps and nautical charts the size of these cays was often exaggerated. See also
References1. ^[https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/bhs.htm Cay Sal] The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 August 2016 2. ^[https://books.google.co.th/books?id=SgoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA257&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Derrotero de las islas Antillas, de las costas Tierra-Firme, y las del Seno Mejicano, Dirección de Hidrografía, España, Madrid, Imprenta Nacional, 1837. p. 266] 3. ^NGA Navigational Chart #27087, Cay Sal Bank. 3rd Edition, corrected through Mar-01. 4. ^[https://books.google.co.th/books?id=SgoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA257&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Derrotero de las islas Antillas, de las costas Tierra-Firme, y las del Seno Mejicano, Dirección de Hidrografía, España, Madrid, Imprenta Nacional, 1837. p. 265] 5. ^NOAA Navigational Chart #11013, Atlantic Coast: Straits of Florida and Approaches. 48th Edition, corrected though Feb-12. Available as a NOAA Raster Navigational Chart at the NOAA Office of Coast Survey RNC Downloads website. 6. ^Alexander Von Humboldt, Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition, ed. and transl. by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, University of Chicago Press, p. 61 7. ^1 2 3 Cay Sal Bank Lighthouse: A Stately Ruin 8. ^1 [https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/bhs.htm Lighthouses of the Bahamas] External links
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