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San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage.
This page from Alain Manesson Mallet's five-volume world atlas shows the islet of Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landing in 1492. Guanahaní (meaning "small upper waters land") [1] was the Taíno name of an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus' first voyage, on 12 October 1492.
They landed on the morning of October 12. Columbus called this island San Salvador; its indigenous name was Guanahani. [50] The modern San Salvador Island [i] in the Bahamas is considered to be the most likely candidate for this island. [52] [j] Columbus wrote of the natives he first encountered in his journal entry of 12 October 1492:
Recorded history began on 12 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, which he renamed San Salvador Island, on his first voyage to the New World. The earliest permanent European settlement was in 1648 on Eleuthera, settled by the British.
Samana Cay was first proposed to be Guanahani by Gustavus Fox in 1882, [2] but the predominant theory gives the honour to San Salvador Island. [3] However, in 1986, Joseph Judge of National Geographic Magazine made different calculations based on extracts from Columbus's logs and argued for Samana Cay as the location, but his methodology has ...
Diego Columbus (Spanish: Diego Colón) was a Lucayan Taíno taken from the island of Guanahani and adopted by Christopher Columbus. Diego's Lucayan name is unknown, but he was an inhabitant of Guanahani (later San Salvador) in October of 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall during his first voyage. During the fleet's stay at the island ...
Rum Cay (formerly known as Mamana and Santa Maria de la Concepción) is an island and district of the Bahamas.It measures 30 square miles (78 km 2) in area, it is located at Lat.: N23 42' 30" - Long.:
The islands that became the Spanish West Indies were the focus of the voyages of the Spanish expedition of Christopher Columbus in America. Largely due to the familiarity that Spaniards gained from Columbus's voyages, the islands were also the first lands to be permanently colonized by Europeans in the Americas.