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Matthew Town

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Almost the entire population of Inagua resides in Matthew Town (approx. 1,000 people), and many of them are employed by the
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In 2008 Morton's employed about 60% of the island's working population.
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Matthew Town is located in Bahamas
20°57′N 73°40′W / 20.950°N 73.667°W / 20.950; -73.667
Bahamas
Island
Great Inagua
Time zone
UTC-5
Eastern Time Zone
Area code
242
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Coordinates
20°56′00.7″N 73°40′27.4″W / 20.933528°N 73.674278°W / 20.933528; -73.674278
Characteristic
Great Inagua
Bahamas
George Buckley-Mathew
Morton Salt
hot semi-arid climate
Köppen
subtropical anticyclone
World Meteorological Organization
List of lighthouses in the Bahamas
World Gazetteer
"Lighthouses of the Bahamas"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Workers at Bahamas' Morton Salt plant end strike"

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