(ETR) Range Tracking Station No. 4 was sited at Eleuthera AAFB (ELU AUXILIARY AIR FORCE BASE), supported by contractor employees of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and Pan American Airways (PAA) in the 1960s and 1970s. This was used by the MISTRAM system. In popular culture The island inspired a song named "Eleutheria" (freedom) by Lenny Kravitz in 1993. Kravitz is a resident of the island and has stated many of his songs were written while on the island. In an October 2020 interview from the island where he has been since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he discussed the impact of the pandemic on the island and some of the crops he grows. The island also heavily inspired a cli-fi novel set partly in Boston and partly on the fictional island of Eleutheria, where a group of ecowarriors have built a compound. The predecessors to this group are English Purtians who came, centuries before, from London to Bermuda and then to Eleutheria. This is the same journey that English Puritan colonists followed before reaching Eleuthera in 1648. The book, titled Eleutheria, was written by Allegra Hyde and published by Vintage Books in 2022. References Further reading External links Former English colonies Islands of the Bahamas