The indigenous Lucayan people called the islands Amaguaya, meaning "toward the middle lands".

[1] The eastern cay was the last natural habitat of the Bahamian Hutia, a species of rabbit-sized rodent.

It was thought to be extinct until 1966, when a population was found on the Plana Cays by biologist Garrett Clough.

[2] The Plana Cays have been suggested as the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in the New World.

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