Exuma Sound

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Exuma Sound
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Exuma Sound
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Exuma Sound
Coordinates 24°15′00″N76°00′00″W / 24.25000°N 76.00000°W / 24.25000; -76.00000
Primary inflows Atlantic Ocean
Basin  countriesFlag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas
Max. depth6,699 ft (2,042 m)

Exuma Sound is a body of water in the Bahama Islands. [1] [2] It lies southeast of New Providence Island and Eleuthera Island and west of Cat Island. [2]

The first ever landing of a rocket in a different country than it was launched from occurred on February 18th, 2025, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida landed on a drone ship in Exuma Sound as a part of the Starlink 10-12 mission. [3] [4]

References

  1. The Exuma Sound: Bahamas. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, US
  2. 1 2 Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 373. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. ISBN   0-87779-546-0
  3. Wall, Mike (2025-02-18). "SpaceX Starlink mission lands rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time (video)". Space.com. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  4. "SpaceX". SpaceX. Archived from the original on 2025-02-21. Retrieved 2025-03-03.