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San Salvador Island
noun
- an island in the central Bahamas: the first land in the New World seen by Christopher Columbus (1492). Area: 156 sq km (60 sq miles) Also calledWatling Island
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San Salvador Island, discovered and named by Columbus, 8, 10.
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