When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. San Salvador Island - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Salvador_Island

   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

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanahani

   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.

4. List of airports in the Bahamas - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_airports_in_the_Bahamas

   The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets. It is located at the north-east of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba , Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic and Haiti ) and the Caribbean Sea , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands ...

5. Diego Columbus (Lucayan) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Columbus_(Lucayan)

   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 ...

6. Samana Cay - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samana_Cay

   Samana Cay is a now uninhabited island in the Bahamas believed by some researchers to have been the location of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492. [ 1 ] It is an islet in the eastern Bahamas, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Acklins Island .

7. These Cities (and States) Have Abandoned Columbus Day

   www.aol.com/cities-states-abandoned-columbus-day...

   Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but he never actually stepped foot on the continent of North America. Since it became a federal holiday in 1937, Columbus Day has been ...