Paradise Island
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Paradise Island is a small island in the Bahamas adjacent to the central island of New Providence (Nassau). It is best known for its sprawling beach resorts, the largest being Atlantis.
It is connected to the island of New Providence by two bridges that cross Nassau Harbour. The was first built in 1966 and the second in the late 1990s.
Formerly known as Hog Island.
Parts of the James Bond movie Thunderball were filmed on Paradise Island.
The Cloisters are located on Paradise Island. A monastery originally built by Augustinian monks in 14th century France. In the 1920s William Randolph Hearst bought the stone structure, had is disassembled and shipped to the United States where the stones remained in a warehouse. In 1962, Huntington Hartford purchased them and installed them on Paradise Island overlooking Nassau Harbour.
Paradise Island, also known as Themyscira, is an island in comics published by DC Comics, and is the home of Wonder Woman and her tribe of Amazons.