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
We may safely decide that Watling Island, named after a buccaneer or pirate of the seventeenth century, is best supported by investigation as the landfall of Columbus.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)
Watling Island is generally accepted as the landfall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Perhaps he gave his name to Watling Island in the Bahama Islands, the first spot of America that Christopher Columbus ever saw, and a great resort of the buccaneers.
From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip
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