The Telegraphreports that Great Whale Cay - an 850-acre L-shaped island in the Bahamas - is up for sale for $80 million. The island comes with its own private airstrip.
Great Whale Cay, 30 minutes by boat from Nassau, is for sale for $80 million (£50 million) with Savills and has the potential to become an exclusive retreat similar to Richard Branson’s Necker Island, or the millionaires’ paradise Mustique.
The 850-acre L-shaped island belonged to "Joe" Carstairs, heiress of the Standard Oil fortune, and was visited by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the Forties. There are historic buildings (Great house, lighthouse, and church), rare flora and fauna and watersports and diving. But what makes it such a rare and valuable opportunity, according to Giles Gale of estate agency Savills, is the private paved airstrip. "It is unlikely that permission would be granted for the creation of a new airstrip these days," he says.
The island is a 50-minute flight away from Florida and a 10 minute flight from Nassau.
