Conception Island National Park
The Conception Island National Park is a protected area in the Bahamas. The island lies between Cat Island to the north and Rum Cay to the south. The vegetation consists of mangrove communities, with typical strand vegetation, and the island is visited by green turtles, sea birds and migrating birds.
The park
The park has a land area of and a maximum altitude of. It is administered by the Bahamas National Trust.Washington Irving identified Conception Island as the site of one of Christopher Columbus' landfalls during his 1492 voyage, but this early theory was not supported by other historians and writers, who identified different claimant islands as the site of Columbus's landfall.