San Salvador was the name Christopher Columbus gave the island he landed on in the Bahamas. The island is now known as Guanahani.
Christopher Columbus first landed in the Bahamas.
On his first trip to the "new world", Columbus initially landed at San Salvador.
He landed on Thursday, October 11,1492, in the Bahamas
Christopher Columbus? He landed in the present day Bahamas.
Columbus landed on October 12th, 1492 and thought he was in India.
Christopher Columbus first landed in The Bahamas
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The first land/island Christopher Columbus saw was San Salvador. That is the answer to that question. GOOD LUCK!
Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, however thinking he had made it to Asia.
Columbus landed on the American continent in Honduras
He landed on what we now call the Bahamas. He named this land "San Salvador" and called its people "Indios", believing mistakenly that they were Indians from India, and that he had discovered the westward ocean route to India (which was his intent).
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.