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The island now called San Salvador was settled in the 17th century by the English buccaneer George or John Watling. Britain formally colonized the Bahamas in the early 18th century. During the Cold War , the United States Navy 's Mobile Construction Battalion 7 constructed a long-range navigation ( LORAN ) station on Grahams Harbor at the north ...
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.:
L. Gardiner. 2001. Stability of Late Pleistocene Reef Mollusks from San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Palaios 16:372-386; B. J. Greenstein, L. A. Harris, and H. A. Curran. 1998. Comparison of recent coral life and death assemblages to Pleistocene reef communities: implications for rapid faunal replacement on recent reefs.
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.
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 ]
Little San Salvador Island: Fl W 2.4s. 21 metres (69 ft) 12212: J4708: 13 Dixon Hill Lighthouse: n/a: San Salvador Island: Fl (2) W 10s. 50 metres (160 ft) 12288: J4738: 23 South Point Lighthouse: n/a: Long Island
San Salvador International Airport is one of the few airports in the Bahamas that has Instrument rating landing for aeroplanes, and as a result aircraft can now land at ZSA after official sunset (with local civil aviation permission). Bahamas Customs and Immigration is present at ZSA between normal working hours of 9am-5pm.
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.