This image shows the eastern two-thirds of Grand Bahama Island, from the Grand Lucayan Waterway on the south shore to McLean's Town in the east. When Columbus visited this island in 1492, he named it Gran Bajamar - 'Great Shallows'. Just north of the main island is Great Sale Cay along with smaller cays in the midst of numerous reefs and sand bars that make up the Little Bahama Bank. Although West End and Freeport are popular tourist destinations, the eastern half of the island has many uninhabitated beaches with the white sand and crystal-clear turquoise water for which the Bahamas are famous.

The red color in the image corresponds to vegetation. The colder, deeper ocean shows as black in contrast to the warmer, shallower waters just north of the island. The area covered by this image is approximately 38x57 miles. A full-resolution crop of the image file is available here that shows the detail present in the full image print.