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
There is an extensive swampy lagoon in Eleuthera, the water of which is fresh or nearly so; and brackish lagoons also occur, as in Watling Island.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
The small island was one of the Bahama group, and is now known as Watling Island.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders
Guanahani is now generally accepted to have been Watling Island.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.
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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