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    Pig Beach

    Big Major Cay, Pig Island, Major Cay

    24°11′N 76°27′W

    Pig Beach located on Big Major Cay (also known as Major Cay) is a beach on an uninhabited island (or cay) located in Exuma, the Bahamas. The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of wild boars who live on the island. It has become a tourist attraction in modern times.

    Warm welcoming from the pigs at Pig Island.
    Warm welcoming from the pigs at Pig Island.

    User: (WT-shared) Angieal24 at wts wikivoyage / Public domain

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    24°11′N 76°27′W

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    Pig Beach located on Big Major Cay (also known as Major Cay) is a beach on an uninhabited island (or cay) located in Exuma, the Bahamas. The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of wild boars who live on the island. It has become a tourist attraction in modern times. The pigs are known in popular culture as "the Bahamas' swimming pigs" although other islands with swimming pigs exist in the Bahamas.

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    Nearest islands

    Also in Exuma

    Also in Lucayan Archipelago

    Also in The Bahamas

    Also in Caribbean

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