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2. San Salvador Island - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Guanahani - Wikipedia

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   It is a bean-shaped island that Columbus called San Salvador. Guanahaní has traditionally been identified with Watlings Island, which was officially renamed San Salvador Island in 1925 as a result, but modern scholars are divided on the accuracy of this identification and several alternative candidates in and around the southern Bahamas have ...

4. Little San Salvador Island - Wikipedia

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   Little San Salvador Island, also known as Half Moon Cay or RelaxAway, Half Moon Cay (/ ˈ k iː /), is one of about 700 islands that make up the archipelago of The Bahamas.It is located roughly halfway between Eleuthera and Cat Island, administratively in the Cat Island District. [1]

5. 13 Private Islands and Resorts Owned by Cruise Lines - AOL

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   Half Moon Cay, also known as Little San Salvador Island, has had a long history of entertaining cruisers; before it switched hands in the '90s, it was owned by Norwegian. There's no port on the ...

6. Samana Cay - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. John Watling - Wikipedia

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   John Watling is best known for making his headquarters on the island currently dubbed San Salvador and naming it Watling Island. It is believed to be the island Guanahani, as named by the indigenous Lucayan people, which Christopher Columbus first saw in 1492 and renamed San Salvador. This is disputed by some.