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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- '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...
-
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...
