San Salvador Island

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A 160 km2 island and district of the Bahamas, supposed to be the first place sighted by Columbus in the New World

Related

Similar words

  • Watlings Island (from the 1680s until 1925)
  • Guanahani (native Lucayan name)

Origin

  • From Spanish, after Christ the Saviour.

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