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Grand Turk has been put forward as the possible landfall island of Christopher Columbus during his first voyage to the New World in 1492. [12] [13] San Salvador Island or Samana Cay in the Bahamas is traditionally identified with Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landfall, but some believe that studies of Columbus' journals show that his descriptions of Guanahani much more closely fit ...
Church Folly, Cockburn Town, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands Coordinates 21°27′54.0″N 71°8′31.6″W / 21.465000°N 71.142111°W / 21.465000; -71.
The Turks and Caicos National Museum is the national museum of the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is located in Guinep House on Front Street to the north of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island , which is also the capital of the archipelago.
Cockburn Town (/ ˈ k oʊ b ər n / KOH-bərn) [1] [2] is the capital [3] of the Turks and Caicos Islands, spreading across most of Grand Turk Island. It was founded in 1681 by salt collectors. It was founded in 1681 by salt collectors.
From 1965 the governor of The Bahamas was also governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands and oversaw affairs for the islands. [9] Replica of Friendship 7 at Grand Turk Airport. From 1950 to 1981, the United States had a missile tracking station on Grand Turk. In the early days of the American space program, NASA used it.
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Grand Turk Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos Islands.The 60-foot-tall (18 m) structure, overlooking North Creek, was completed by British architect Alexander Gordon in 1852 to alert sailors of the shallow reef.
JAGS McCartney International Airport (IATA: GDT, ICAO: MBGT), also known as Grand Turk International Airport, is an airport located 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.