text: The island's capital and only harbour is Matthew Town, named after George Matthew, a 19th-century Governor of the Bahamas. This town houses the Morton Salt Company’s main facility, producing one million tonnes of sea salt a year — the second largest solar saline operation in North America and Inagua's main industry.
  Great Inagua Airport (IATA: IGA, ICAO: MYIG) is located nearby.
  A large bird sanctuary in the centre of the island has a population of more than 80,000 West Indian flamingoes and many other bird species, including the Bahama parrot, Inagua woodstar, Bahama pintail, brown pelican, tricolored heron, snowy egret, reddish egret, stripe-headed tanager, double-crested cormorant, Neotropic cormorant, roseate spoonbill, American kestrel, and burrowing owl. The Union Creek National Reserve is specially set aside for the study of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas).
  Little Inagua
  The neighbouring Little Inagua,  to the northeast, is uninhabited and occupied by a large Land and Sea Park.  It has an area of , with herds of feral donkeys and goats (descendants of stock introduced by the French). Various species of endangered sea turtles breed on the island. Little Inagua has a large protective reef extending up to  away from the island in all directions, which prevents boats from coming too close.
  Politics
  The island is part of the MICAL constituency for elections to the House of Assembly of the Bahamas.