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Rum Cay
Rum Cay is an island and district of the Bahamas.
Rum Cay, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of San Salvador Island, is mainly flat but rises to about 120 feet (37 m). The island is believed to have acquired its more racy modern name from a shipwrecked cargo of rum.
The wreck of the 101-gun man of war HMS Conqueror , which sank off Rum Cay in 1861, is preserved as the Underwater Museum of the Bahamas .
Before 1996 it was part of a combined district of San Salvador and Rum Cay.
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