# Rum Cay > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rum_Cay > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rum_Cay.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Cay > Source revision: 1355542041 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{more citations needed|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Rum Cay |other_name = |native_name = Mamana |nickname = |image_shield = |motto = |image_skyline = Rum Cay, The Bahamas.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = |image_map = Rum Cay in Bahamas (zoom).svg |mapsize = |map_caption = |pushpin_map = |pushpin_label_position = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [The Bahamas](/source/The_Bahamas) |subdivision_type1 = Island |subdivision_name1 = Rum Cay |government_type = District Council |leader_title1 = Chief Councillor |leader_name1 = |leader_title2 = Deputy Chief Councillor |leader_name2 = |established_title = [Established](/source/The_Bahamas_Local_Government_Act_of_1996) |established_date = 1996 |established_title2 = |established_date2 = |established_title3 = |established_date3 = |area_total_km2 = 78 |population_as_of = 2022 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |settlement_type = |population_total = 90{{cite web |title=Census population and housing |url=https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |website=Bahamas Gov |access-date=17 April 2023 |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415193553/https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |url-status=live }} |population_density_km2 = auto |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |timezone = [EST](/source/Eastern_Time_Zone_(North_America)) |utc_offset = −5 |timezone_DST = [EDT](/source/Eastern_Daylight_Time) |utc_offset_DST = −4 |coordinates = {{coord|format=dms|type:isle_region:BS|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = 37 |elevation_ft = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |website = }} '''Rum Cay''' (formerly known as '''Mamana''' and '''Santa Maria de la Concepción''') is an island and [district](/source/Districts_of_the_Bahamas) of [The Bahamas](/source/The_Bahamas). It measures {{convert|30|sqmi|sqkm}} in area. It is located at Lat.: N23 42' 30" – Long.: W 74 50' 00". It has many rolling hills that rise to about 120 feet (37 m). The main settlement is Port Nelson. Its population was recorded as 90 {{As of|2022|lc=y}}. Before 1996 the island was part of a combined district of [San Salvador and Rum Cay](/source/San_Salvador_and_Rum_Cay).{{cite web |title=Census population and housing |url=https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |website=Bahamas Gov |access-date=17 April 2023 |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415193553/https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |url-status=live }} ==Location== Rum Cay is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of [San Salvador Island](/source/San_Salvador_Island). ==History== ===Aboriginals=== Rum Cay was called ''Mamana'' (or ''Manigua''), meaning "mid waters land", by the native [Lucayans](/source/Lucayan_people).{{Cite journal |last=Ahrens |first=Wolfgang P. |date=2015 |title=Naming the Bahamas Islands: History and Folk Etymology |url=https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14910 |journal=[Onomastica Canadiana](/source/Onomastica_Canadiana) |language=en |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=101 |issn=2816-7015 |archive-date=2023-02-21 |access-date=2023-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221041210/https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14910 |url-status=live }} In the north there is a cave containing Lucayan drawings and carvings. Various artifacts from the [Arawak](/source/Arawak) period have been found by farmers in the fertile soil, which the natives enriched with [bat guano](/source/bat_guano). ===Spanish=== Some writers, such as [Samuel Eliot Morison](/source/Samuel_Eliot_Morison), identified Rum Cay as the site of one of [Christopher Columbus](/source/Christopher_Columbus)'s landfalls during his [1492 voyage](/source/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus), as the island Columbus called ''Santa María de la Concepción''. However, a variety of other historians, geographers, and other writers identify that island as corresponding to different islands in the Bahamas or [Caicos](/source/Caicos).[Wilcomb E. Washburn](/source/Wilcomb_E._Washburn), "Landfall Controversy" in ''The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia'', Vol. 1 (ed. [Silvio A. Bedin](/source/Silvio_Bedini): Simon & Schuster, 1992). ==Transportation== The island is served by [Port Nelson Airport](/source/Port_Nelson_Airport). ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == {{wikivoyage}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100405222948/http://www.rumcayherald.com/ General information about Rum Cay]}} {{Districts of The Bahamas}} {{Authority control}} Category:Islands of the Bahamas Category:Districts of the Bahamas --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rum Cay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Cay) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Cay?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.