by the 1970s, two-thirds of all Bahamians lived in Nassau or elsewhere on New Providence Island. This dramatic population shift was related to a lack of stable job market in the Out Islands; only pineapple cultivation and salt-raking provided steady wage jobs, and only on a few islands. Today, tourism is economically significant in the Out Islands; beaches, snorkeling, and scuba diving are the principal tourist draws. A 2017 academic study reported that the relative economic importance of shark diving was greater in the Out Islands than elsewhere in the Bahamas. See also List of islands of the Bahamas Works cited Michael Craton & Gail Saunders, A History of the Bahamian People: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery (Vol. 1: University of Georgia Press, 1992: paperback ed., 2009). Michael Craton & Gail Saunders, A History of the Bahamian People: From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century (Vol. 2: University of Georgia Press, 1998: paperback ed., 2000). Notes