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Andros is the largest island of the Bahamas — at a little over 100 miles (160 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide, it’s almost four times larger than any other island in the Commonwealth — though much of its territory is covered by uninhabitable mangrove swamp and coral limestone escarpments divided by wide creeks.
Embraced by green wooded escarpments and backed by snow-capped Alps, the lake favored by some of England’s most romantic 19th-century poets — Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron — retains a certain wistful atmosphere for the leisure hours of the Milanese (it’s less than an hour from Milan by train or car).