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Samana Cay is a now uninhabited island in the Bahamas believed by some researchers to have been the location of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492.[1]
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 Landsat Image of Samana Cay and White Cay, Bahamas | |
  Samana Cay The location of Samana Cay within the Bahamas | |
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| Location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Coordinates | 23°05′N 73°45′W |
| Type | Cay |
| Archipelago | Lucayan Archipelago |
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Bahamas | |
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| ISO code | BS-CK |
It is an islet in the eastern Bahamas, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Acklins Island. About 10 miles (16 km) long and up to 2 miles (3 km) wide with an area of about 17 square miles (45 km2) it is bound by reefs. The verdant cay has long been uninhabited, but figurines, pottery shards, and other artifacts discovered there in the mid-1980s have been ascribed to Lucayan Indians, who lived on the cay around the time of Columbus's voyages.
The indigenous people of the island on which Columbus first landed called it "Guanahani." Samana Cay was first proposed to be Guanahani by Gustavus Fox in 1882,[2] but the predominant theory gives the honour to San Salvador Island.[3] However, in 1986, Joseph Judge of National Geographic Magazine made different calculations based on extracts from Columbus's logs and argued for Samana Cay as the location, but his methodology has also been criticised.[4]
Samana was a name of apparent Lucayan origin (meaning "Small Middle Forest") used by the Spanish to designate one of the islands in the Bahamas. Granberry and Vesceliuus identify that island as the present-day Samana Cay.[5]
Samana Cay had a permanent population during the first half of the 20th century, and the ruins of the settlement are visible on the south side of the island, near the western end. The island is now uninhabited, but residents of nearby Acklins Island visit occasionally to collect cascarilla bark, which grows in abundance on the island.
Notes
- Markham, Clements Robert (1892). Life of Christopher Columbus. London: G. Philip & Son. pp. 97.
- Fox, Gustavus V. (June 1880). "An Attempt to solve the Problem of the First Landing Place of Columbus in the New World", "Report of the Superintendent of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey". Appendix No. 18. Washington, DC: Government Printing office.
- William D. Phillips Jr., 'Columbus, Christopher', in David Buisseret (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, online edition 2012).
- For a brief discussion of the controversy, see William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 155–5.
- Julian Granberry and Gary S. Vescelius. (2004) Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. The University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-5123-X p. 83
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[de] Samana Cay
Samana Cay ist eine zu den östlichen Bahamas gehörende Insel im Atlantik. Sie ist etwa 16 Kilometer lang und bis zu drei Kilometer breit. 1986 verschaffte die National Geographic Society der größten unbewohnten Insel der Bahamas Aufmerksamkeit mit der These, Christoph Kolumbus habe am 12. Oktober 1492 hier und nicht auf der heute so genannten Insel San Salvador erstmals den Boden der Neuen Welt betreten.[1] Diese These wurde jedoch wieder verworfen, nachdem computergestützte Modelle unter Berücksichtigung der Meeresströmungen eine Landeposition 24 km südlich von San Salvador ergeben hatten.- [en] Samana Cay
[es] Cayo Samaná
Cayo Samaná es una pequeña isla situada en el centro de las Bahamas. Mide nueve millas de largo (en dirección este - oeste) y entre 1 y 2 millas de ancho. Sus coordenadas geográficas son 23°05′N 73°45′O.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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