Pig Beach - Wikipedia Pig Beach This article 's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article 's talk page. ( February 2014 ) Big Major Cay Nickname : Pig Beach Pigs swimming in the Bahamas. Big Major Cay Geography Location the Americas Archipelago Exuma Cays Total islands Major islands Administration The Commonwealth of the Bahamas Capital city Nassau Largest settlement Nassau ( pop. 248,948 ; as of 2010 ) Prime Minister Perry Christie Pig Beach ( also known as Pig Island, Major Cay, and officially Big Major Cay ) is 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 feral pigs that live on the island and in the surrounding shallows. Contents 1 Geography and features 2 Anecdotal history 3 Demographics and fauna 4 See also 5 References Geography and features See also : Exuma Cays Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, and consists of over 360 islands. Near Big Major Cay is Staniel Cay. There are three freshwater springs on the island. Anecdotal history The pigs are said to have been dropped off on Big Major Cay by a group of sailors who wanted to come back and cook them. The sailors, though, never returned ; the pigs survived on excess food dumped from passing ships. One other legend has it that the pigs were survivors of a shipwreck and managed to swim to shore, while another claims that the pigs had escaped from a nearby islet. Others suggest that the pigs were part of a business scheme to attract tourists to the Bahamas. The pigs are now fed by locals and tourists and the island is unofficially known as Pig Beach by the locals. Demographics and fauna Big Major Cay is an uninhabited island. The island is home to approximately 20 pigs and piglets. A few stray cats and goats can be found on the island too. See also Media related to Pig Beach at Wikimedia Commons List of islands of the Bahamas Bahamas portal Geography portal Animals portal References Jump up ^ Ripley 's Believe It or Not ! Annual 2013. ISBN 978 - 1 - 60991 - 032 - 7. ^ Jump up to : `` Beach Babe : The happy pigs that love to swim in the Caribbean ( and we 're not telling porkies ) ''. Daily Mail. January 25, 2011. Retrieved February 28, 2013. Jump up ^ The Bahamas - Guidebook Chapter : Chapter from Caribbean Islands travel guide book ( 6 ed. ). Lonely Planet. 2012. ISBN 9781743210826. Jump up ^ `` Swimming with Pigs ''. The Island of the Bahamas. Retrieved February 28, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Exuma ''. The Official Website of the Government of the Bahamas. Retrieved February 27, 2013. ^ Jump up to : Susannah Cahalan ( January 30, 2011 ). `` Pig Kahuna is ' bacon ' on own island ''. New York Post. Retrieved March 1, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Lucky swines have own island ''. The Sun. January 24, 2011. Retrieved March 1, 2013. ^ Jump up to : Greaves - Gabbadon, Sarah. `` Best Bahamas Trips : Swim with Pigs in the Exumas ''. Caribbean Travel Magazine. Retrieved February 28, 2013. Jump up ^ Moorhouse, Austin E. ( 2004 ). Halcyon Days : From A Dream To Reality. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 9781412016650. Jump up ^ `` Pigs swim in sea in Bahamas ''. The Telegraph. July 16, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Swimming Pigs of Big Major Cay ''. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved February 27, 2013. Jump up ^ Frommer 's ShortCuts ( 2012 ). The Exumas, Bahamas : Frommer 's ShortCuts ( 2 ed. ). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118470343. Jump up ^ McRae, Mavis ( May 23, 2012 ). `` The Bahamas ' Wild Pigs Meet Dr. Sylvia Earle And Mission Blue ( PHOTOS ) ''. Huffington Post. Retrieved February 28, 2013. Coordinates : 24 ° 11 ′ 01 '' N 76 ° 27 ′ 23 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 24.18361 ° N 76.45639 ° W ﻿ / 24.18361 ; - 76.45639 This Bahamas - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pig_Beach&oldid=833987611 '' Categories : Islands of the Bahamas Uninhabited islands of the Bahamas Pigs Exuma Bahamas stubs Hidden categories : All articles with self - published sources Articles with self - published sources from January 2018 Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages Wikipedia introduction cleanup from February 2014 All pages needing cleanup Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from February 2014 All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2010 All articles containing potentially dated statements Coordinates on Wikidata All stub articles Talk View source Contents About Wikipedia Български Español Français Հայերեն Italiano עברית Русский Suomi ไทย Türkçe 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 3 April 2018, at 10 : 23. About Wikipedia

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