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    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...
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    the place as Guanaham, now considered to be a mistranscription of Taíno Guanahaní, meaning "Small Land in the Upper Waters". San Salvador Island sits on...
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    on 12 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, which he renamed San Salvador Island, on his first voyage to the New...
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    place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani. He then visited the islands now known as Cuba and Hispaniola, establishing...
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    is a folk etymology. Alternatively, Bahama may have been derived from Guanahaní, a local name of unclear meaning. First attested on the c. 1523 Turin...
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    hunter gatherer lifestyle. After first landing on an island then called Guanahani on 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on Cuba on 27 October...
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    with Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landfall, but some believe that studies of Columbus' journals show that his descriptions of Guanahani much...
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  • 'discovery' of America. This first island to be visited by Columbus was called Guanahani by the Lucayans, and San Salvador by the Spanish. The identity of the...
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    of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492 [OS]. On his return in...
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    motto was adopted some decades after Christopher Columbus traveled to Guanahaní. Plus oultre, French for "further beyond", was adopted by the young Duke...
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    Christopher Columbus' ship La Pinta, he sighted a land that was called Guanahani by the natives."Esta tierra vidó primero un marinero que se decía Rodrigo...
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  • Nassau, The Bahamas. Bethel is best known for her collections of poems, Guanahani, My Love and Bougainvillea Ringplay. Her work has appeared in publications...
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    tobacco at San Salvador island in the Bahamas, known to the natives as Guanahani. The natives presented them with apparently valuable "dry leaves that...
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  • The Mardens concluded that Columbus made his first landfall—Columbus's "Guanahani"—at Samana Cay, not at San Salvador Island, also posited as Columbus's...
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    not to Spain but to the Crown of Castile." He landed on the island of Guanahani, and called it San Salvador. He continued onto Cuba, naming it Juana,...
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    Norwegian Cruise Line Green Cay Green Turtle Cay Griffins Cay Grunt Cay Guanahani Cay Guana Cay Guincho Ginger Cay Guinchos Cay (18 miles (29 km) from Cuba)...
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    Town, in present-day Saint Catherine Parish. After first landing on "Guanahani" in the Bahamas, Columbus found the island which he called "Isla Juana"...
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    island on which Columbus first landed called it "Guanahani." Samana Cay was first proposed to be Guanahani by Gustavus Fox in 1882, but the predominant theory...
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  • Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, which he calls San Salvador, believing he has reached the East Indies...
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    Christian church, such as Christopher Columbus who baptized in the island of Guanahani, Bahamas in 1492. And so, Gonzalo made it honor to the Divine Savior of...
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  • Suddenly, out of the mist they see the lush vegetation and sandy beaches of Guanahani. The Europeans befriend the local natives, who show them gold they have...
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    in The Bahamas. Columbus encountered the Lucayan people on the island Guanahani (possibly Cat Island), which they had inhabited since the ninth century...
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  • Spanish sailor to have first sighted the New World (i.e., the island of Guanahani) on Columbus' first voyage (on 12 October 1492). Rodrigo López (c. 1525–1594)...
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    Campari. Until written accounts were found, Cat Island was thought to be Guanahani or San Salvador, the first island Christopher Columbus arrived at in the...
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    Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), backed by Spain, reaches San Salvador Island (Guanahani to the natives), "discovering the New World" and encountering Arawak and...
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    12. Columbus called this island San Salvador; its indigenous name was Guanahani. The modern San Salvador Island in the Bahamas is considered to be the...
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    from Guadeloupe to Grenada, and the Calusa and Ais nations of Florida. Guanahaní was the Taíno name for the island that Columbus renamed San Salvador (Spanish...
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    Guanahaní o San Salvador, sino tuob. ("Here they don't call gold caona, as in the first part of this island, nor nozay as in the islet of Guanahani or...
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    were part of Asia. In his diaries, Columbus writes that the natives of Guanahani, his first landing; were entirely naked, both men and women, and gentle...
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    Inagua i+na+wa Small Eastern Land Baneque Inagua ba+ne+ke Big Water Island Guanahaní Little Inagua wa+na+ha+ni Small Upper Waters Land Utiaquia Ragged Island...
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