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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.
Cockburn Town is a town in the Bahamas, located on San Salvador Island.It has a population of 271 as of 2010. [1] In the town there is an airport, museum, administrator's office, post office, clinic, telecommunication station, and electricity generators.
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 ...
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]
In the far south is the island of Great Inagua, the second-largest island in the country. Other notable islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, and Mayaguana. Nassau is the capital and largest city, located on New Providence. The islands have a tropical savannah climate, moderated by the Gulf Stream.