North Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera. |||}The Districts of the Bahamas provide a system of local government everywhere in The Bahamas except New Providence, whose affairs are handled directly by the central The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent sovereign English -speaking country consisting of two thousand Cays and See also Eleutherae Eleuthera is an island in the Bahamas, lying 50 miles (80 km east of Nassau.
Sweetings Pond in North Central Eleuthera is recognized as a site of special ecological value, containing, it is estimated, a concentration of Ophiothrix oerstedi brittlestars at up to 434 individuals per square metre, because of the lack of marine predators. Sweetings Pond is a 260 acre saltwater lake adjacent to the ocean but with no direct surface connection. It is generally assumed that "blue holes" below the surface link the lake to the The Atlantic Ocean. A blue hole is a submarine Cave or Sinkhole. They are also called vertical caves More details on the phenomenon are set forth in a paper published in 1998 by David J. Hughes of the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory for the Scottish Association of Marine Sciences.
Sweetings Pond is also noted for the high density population of Octopus vulgaris Cuvier 1797 in the saltwater lake.
North Eleuthera Airport serves the area. North Eleuthera Airport is an airport in North Eleuthera on Eleuthera in the Bahamas.