Booby Cay (Bahamas)

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Booby Cay is an island in the Bahamas that lies east of Mayaguana. The island is low-lying uninhabited limestone cay around 500 metres off the eastern shore of the much larger island of Mayaguana, in the far southeast of The Bahamas. It has an area of 43 hectares and a limestone and sand shore, with a brackish lake covering a fifth of its surface. It is a recognised Important Bird Area due to the breeding populations of brown boobies it hosts. It is also the only place in the world where the critically endangered Bartsch's rock iguana, a subspecies of the Turks and Caicos rock iguana, is found.

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