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Christopher Columbus never landed in the Hawaiian Islands.
He called them Indians.
The west indies where named by Christopher Columbus however we today call it the carribean a series of islands in carribean sea
The west indies where named by christopher columbus however we today call it the carribean a series of islands in carribean sea
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When Christopher Columbus first came to Dominican republic he named it Hispaniola.(:
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it was so named because to him we looked like the east indies he was just idle
Christopher Columbus believed that he had sailed all the way to the East Indies, probably somewhere near the islands we now call Malaysia. He didn't realize that he had only sailed less than halfway to Asia.
Eastern Coba. Do not quote me on that.
Christopher Columbus."Finally on October 12, 1492, the ships landed on an island Columbus named San Salvador. Today we call this land east of Florida the Bahama Islands."~ Quoted from Oklahoma Hisotry Book.Oklahoma:Land of Contrasts.