Conception Island National Park

The Conception Island National Park is a protected area in the Bahamas.

The park has a land area of 810 hectares (2,000 acres) and a maximum altitude of 20 m (66 ft).

[3] 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 (either at the time or subsequently), who identified different claimant islands as the site of Columbus's landfall.

[4] The island has an extensive area of mangrove-dominated habitat and typical strandline vegetation.

It is one of the most important nesting sites for the green sea turtle in the Bahamas and is visited by many migrating birds.