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2024
San_Salvador_Island
San Salvador Island
English
view on Grahams Harbour in the north of the island
Proper noun
San Salvador
Island
a 160 km2 island and district of the Bahamas, supposed to be the first place sighted by
Columbus
in the
New World
Synonyms
Watlings Island
(from the 1680s until 1925)
Guanahani
(native Lucayan name)
Translations
an island and district of the Bahamas
Etymology
From Spanish, after Christ the Saviour.
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