Guanahani
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thumb|240px|This page from Alain Manesson Mallet's five-volume world atlas shows the islet of Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landing in 1492
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Primary sources
- Letter from Columbus himself
- Map of Juan de la Cosa
- ''Diario''
- Biography by Sebastian LaFrance and Fernando Colón
- Description of San Salvador/Guanahani
- Number of islands
- Transatlantic track
- Light seen on the evening preceding the discovery
- Inter-island track
- Island II
- Island III
- Island IV
- Candidates
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|240px|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") 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. 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 been proposed as well.
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