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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 Landed on the island of San Salvador.
Columbus landed in the Bahamas
San Salvador was the name Christopher Columbus gave the island he landed on in the Bahamas. The island is now known as Guanahani.
He named Bahamas, San Salvador.
The Watling Island is known today as the San Salvador Island. The name Watling was used from 1680 until 1925.
San Salvador was the name Christopher Columbus gave the island he landed on in the Bahamas. The island is now known as Guanahani.
San Salvador
San Salvador. He claimed he had reached Asia but he didn't. Amerigo Vespucci proved Columbus wrong be following the same route he did and found nothing like what he described.
On October 12, 1492, Columbus first went ashore in the Americas on an island in the Bahamas, an island which was known by the natives as Guanahani . It has never been definitively identified, but was likely one of four islands: Grand Turk Island, Samana Cay, Plana Cays, or San Salvador Island (formerly Watling Island).
Little San Salvador Island (or Half Moon Cay) is in the Bahamas