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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...
- 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...
- from the
island of
Guanahani and
adopted by
Christopher Columbus. Diego's
Lucayan name is unknown, but he was an
inhabitant of
Guanahani (later San Salvador)...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
-
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...
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tobacco at San
Salvador island in the Bahamas,
known to the
natives as
Guanahani. The
natives presented them with
apparently valuable "dry
leaves that...
