San Salvador Island

British

noun

Also called: Watling Island. 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)

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RUNNER-UP Bahamas The ledges around San Salvador Island and the Bahamas can produce trophy-size wahoo.

From Time Magazine Archive

San Salvador Island, discovered and named by Columbus, 8, 10.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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