Miss Universe 2009 was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau, which is in an archipelagic state within what Archipelago?
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Miss Universe 2009 Miss Universe 2009, the 58th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 23 August at the Imperial Ballroom in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas. It was the first back to back victories in Miss Universe history: Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela was crowned by Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela as her successor at the end of the event. 84 contestants competed in this year. On 22 August, Jewel Selver representing Turks & Caicos withdrew from the pageant due to illness (dehydration). Only 83 contestants competed in the final.
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The Bahamas The Bahamas ( ), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago. It consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of "the Bahamas" can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 180000 sqmi of ocean space.
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Imperial Majesty Cruise Line Imperial Majesty Cruise Line was a budget cruise line that had operated 2 and 3 day voyages out of Port Everglades, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas. The company was founded in 1999. The cruise line attracted both vacationers and vintage ship fans from around the world. The cruise line's current operations ended on March 9, 2009, when the Regal Empress was retired. In that same week, its operations were replaced by another cruise line operating for the same company that Imperial Majesty was part of.
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Sovereign Islands, Queensland Sovereign Islands is a very affluent gated community within the suburb of Paradise Point on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 Census, the area had a population of 19,139.
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Atlantis, Florida Atlantis is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. According to 2005 census estimates, the city had a population of 2,142. The city was named after the legendary island of Atlantis.
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Alor Island Alor (Indonesian: "Pulau Alor" ) is the largest island in the Alor Archipelago and is one of the 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia. It is located at the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands that runs through southeastern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
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Mount Loretto Unique Area Mount Loretto Unique Area is an open space reserve and nature preserve administered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on Staten Island, New York City. The area's total size is 241 acre , of which 49 acre is underwater.
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Abigail Hyndman Abigail Hyndman (born 1990) is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss British Virgin Islands 2011, was represented of the British overseas territory in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant.
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Bonaire Bonaire (pronounced or ; Dutch: "Bonaire" , ] ; Papiamentu: "Boneiru") is an island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Together with Aruba and Curaçao, it forms the group known as the ABC islands, less than a hundred miles off the north coast of South America near the western part of Venezuela. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, the ABCs lie outside the hurricane belt. The islands have an arid climate, which helps tourism, as visitors to the islands can reliably expect warm, sunny weather. Bonaire is a popular destination for scuba diving, and easy access from shore to its fringing reefs.
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Nueva Esparta New Sparta State, in Spanish Estado Nueva Esparta (] ), is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. It comprises Margarita Island, Coche, and the largely uninhabited Cubagua.
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Realm of New Zealand The Realm of New Zealand is the entire area (or realm) in which the Queen of New Zealand is head of state. The Realm of New Zealand is not a federation or a unitary state; it is a collection of states and territories united under a monarch. New Zealand is a sovereign state. It has one Antarctic territorial claim, the Ross Dependency; one dependent territory, Tokelau; and two associated states, the Cook Islands and Niue.
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Olivia Culpo Olivia Frances Culpo (born May 8, 1992) is an American actress, model, television presenter, cellist and beauty queen who won the Miss USA 2012 pageant, representing her home state of Rhode Island. She previously won the 2012 Miss Rhode Island USA competition, which was the first pageant she entered. Crowned Miss Universe 2012 in Las Vegas, she is the first winner from the USA to obtain the crown since Brook Lee in 1997.
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Catherine Island Catherine Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It is part of the City and Borough of Sitka and lies just off the northeast corner of Baranof Island, separated from it by Portage Arm. The U.S. Forest Service named Catherine Island in 1935 after Catherine I of Russia. Catherine Island has a land area of 86.936 km² (33.566 sq mi) and no resident population.
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Miss Nicaragua 2010 The Miss Nicaragua 2010 pageant, was held on February 27, 2010 in Managua, after weeks of events. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Scharllette Allen Moses became the first Miss Nicaragua titleholder from the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. She represented Nicaragua at Miss Universe 2010 held later that year in Las Vegas, USA. The rest of the finalists would enter different pageants.
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Stockholm archipelago The Stockholm archipelago (Swedish: "Stockholms skärgård" ) is the largest archipelago in Sweden, and the second-largest archipelago in the Baltic Sea (the largest being across the Baltic in Finland).
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Miss USA 2011 Miss USA 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss USA pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Paradise, Nevada on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Rima Fakih of Michigan crowned her successor, Alyssa Campanella of California, at the end of this event. She represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. For the first time ever, one of the sixteen semifinalists was selected exclusively by fans via online voting and SMS messaging. Due to this, the competition formats were changed to reality series style group eliminations, Top 16, Top 8 and Top 4.
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Miss Bikini of the Universe Miss Bikini of the Universe is an international beauty pageant held annually in Beihai, Guangxi, China.
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Miss Teen USA 2008 Miss Teen USA 2008, the 26th Miss Teen USA pageant, was held on August 16, 2008 at Grand Ballroom in the Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. This was the first Miss Teen USA pageant that was not televised, after then-Miss Universe Organization broadcast partner NBC failed to renew its contract, and it was also the first Miss Teen USA pageant broadcasting only online by Ustream and the first held outside the United States. The pageant was hosted by Seth Goldman and Miss Teen USA 2004, Shelley Hennig.
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Martinique Queens Miss Martinique pageant has been known since 1957, unrelated as above specified to Martinique Queens, when the island competed at the Miss Universe pageant. Since 1984 the island joins Miss France contest as overseas department of the country. In 1985 it boycotts to the Miss Universe pageant, because of the pageant does allow that island competing in a national competition as a region.
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Lika Ordzhonikidze Lika Ordzhonikidze (Georgian: ლიკა ორჯონიკიძე , born c. 1987) born in Georgia, placed as the 1st Runner-up in the Miss Georgia 2008 pageant, and because a Miss Georgia 2009 pageant was never held her organization decided that Lika would get the opportunity to represent her country in both Miss Universe 2009 in the Bahamas and Miss Intercontinental 2009 in Belarus.
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Alabat Island Alabat Island is an island of the Philippine archipelago, in the Quezon Province of the CALABARZON region, situated just off the east coast of Southern Luzon. The island has an area of 192 km2 and a population of 41,822.
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Fortunate Isles The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed (Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι , "makárôn nêsoi") were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology. The related idea of Brasil and other islands in Celtic mythology are sometimes conflated with the Greek sense of islands in the western Mediterranean: Sicily, the Aeolian Islands, the Aegadian Islands or other smaller islands of Sicily. Later on the islands were said to lie in the Western Ocean near the encircling River Oceanus; Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde, Bermuda, and the Lesser Antilles have sometimes been cited as possible matches.