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Saona

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[sau-nuh, sah-aw-nah] / ˈsaʊ nə, sɑˈɔ nɑ /

noun

  1. an island in the Caribbean Sea, S of the SE Dominican Republic coast. About 13 miles (21 km) long.


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According to Gonzalvo, there's also a dependable swordfish bite in the Saona Channel, two miles offshore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Southwest from Point Espada lies the largest island of the Dominican Republic, the Island of Saona, fifteen miles long by four miles wide, the low hills of which are covered with abundant vegetation.

From Santo Domingo A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

Esquibel departed by night, therefore, in the vessel, with fifty followers, and keeping under the deep shadows cast by the land, arrived at Saona unperceived, at the dawn of morning.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving

Saona, island of, discovered; difference of longitude between, and Cadiz Scandinavians, an essay relative to the voyages of.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving

In the same year that London began to print appeared the first books from the press at the Abbey of St Albans, namely, Augustini Dacti elegancie, and the Nova Rhetorica of Saona.

From The Story of Books by Gertrude Burford Rawlings

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