Plana Cays

The Plana Cays are a group of two small uninhabited islands in the southern Bahama Islands, located east of Acklins Island and west of Mayaguana Island. The indigenous Lucayan people called the islands Amaguaya, meaning "toward the middle lands".^[1]

Topographic map of Acklins Island and Crooked Island, with Plana Cays in the east (right).

Plana Cays

The western Plana Cay, looking northeast
Plana Cays The location of Plana Cays within the Bahamas
Geography
Location	Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates	22.600°N 73.573°W / 22.600; -73.573
Type	Cay
Archipelago	Lucayan Archipelago
Administration
Bahamas

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. Hutias have since been transplanted from the Plana Cays to other parts of the Bahamas.^[2]

The Plana Cays have been suggested as the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in the New World.^{[3][4][non-primary source needed]}