Watling Island
Americannoun
noun
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The first land sighted was an island called by the Indians Guanahani: geographers today think it was Watling Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
The storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas�probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place�silencing the Government wireless.
From Time Magazine Archive
But lately people have come to believe that Columbus first landed upon an island a little further south, now called, Watling Island.
From This Country of Ours by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
We do not know which one of the Bahama islands he first saw, but we believe it was the one now called Watling Island.
From Introductory American History by Bourne, Henry Eldridge
While it is not known with certainty where he landed, it was probably Watling Island, one of the Bahamas.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
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