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...

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...

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...

with Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landfall, but some believe that studies of Columbus' journals show that his descriptions of Guanahani much...

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...

hunter-gatherer lifestyle. After first landing on an island then called Guanahani on 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on Cuba on 27 October...

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...

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...

motto was adopted some decades after Christopher Columbus traveled to Guanahaní. Plus oultre, French for "further beyond", was adopted by the young Duke...

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...

Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), backed by Spain, reaches San Salvador Island (Guanahani to the natives), "discovering the New World" and encountering Arawak and...

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...

'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...

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,...

Town, in present-day Saint Catherine Parish. After first landing on "Guanahani" in the Bahamas, Columbus found the island which he called "Isla Juana"...

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...

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)...

Nassau, The Bahamas. Bethel is best known for her collections of poems, Guanahani, My Love and Bougainvillea Ringplay. Her work has appeared in publications...

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...

Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, which he calls San Salvador, believing he has reached the East Indies...

in The Bahamas. Columbus encountered the Lucayan people on the island Guanahani (possibly Cat Island), which they had inhabited since the ninth century...

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...

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...

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)...

tobacco at San Salvador island in the Bahamas, known to the natives as Guanahani. The natives presented them with apparently valuable "dry leaves that...

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...

Island in the Galápagos Islands San Salvador Island, Columbus's name for Guanahani, the first island he reached in the Americas A former settlement area...

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...

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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