Eleuthera/Palmetto Point, Caribbean, Bahamas (7 miles South of Governors Harbour) The tropical, balmy Bahamas archipelago comprises some 700 coconut and casuarina-fringed islands and 2,000 islets, most of them uninhabited. The island nation is scattered across 100,000 square miles of multi-colored, gin-clear Atlantic waters, described by astronauts in space as the world's most beautiful.