San Salvador Island

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San Salvador Island is a Bahamian island widely believed to be the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, historically identified with the island he called Guanahani.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
San Salvador Island canonical 8

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island
administrativeStatus district of the Bahamas
alsoKnownAs Guanahani
Watling Island NERFINISHED
belongsTo Commonwealth of The Bahamas
linked to: Bahamas
climate tropical
country Bahamas
countryCapital Nassau
currency Bahamian dollar
discoveryDateClaim 12 October 1492
ethnicGroups Afro-Bahamian
linked to: Afro-Bahamians

European Bahamian
formerName Watling Island NERFINISHED
governedAs district of the Bahamas
governingBody Government of the Bahamas
hasAirport San Salvador Airport
San Salvador International Airport
hasAttraction Columbus Monument
Dixon Hill Lighthouse
diving sites
hasCity Cockburn Town
hasCoastline Atlantic Ocean coast
hasFeature beaches
lagoons
hasHistoricalDebate exact location of Columbus’s first landfall
heritage Columbian historical site
historicalClaim First landfall of Christopher Columbus in the Americas
historicalEvent Christopher Columbus first landing in the New World
identifiedBy Christopher Columbus as Guanahani
ISO3166-2 BS-SS
language English
largestSettlement Cockburn Town
locatedEastOf New Providence
locatedIn Atlantic Ocean
Lucayan Archipelago
locatedSoutheastOf Eleuthera
marineActivity fishing
scuba diving
snorkeling
marineEnvironment coral reefs
namedAfter San Salvador
nearbySea Caribbean Sea
partOf District of San Salvador
populationCharacteristic sparsely populated
primaryEconomicActivity tourism
region Out Islands of the Bahamas
religion Christianity
renamedIn 1925
timezone Eastern Time Zone
transport served by regional flights

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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guanahani historicallyIdentifiedWith San Salvador Island
Guanahani commonlyIdentifiedWith San Salvador Island
Guanahani hasModernNameCandidate San Salvador Island
Out Islands of the Bahamas hasPart San Salvador Island
Santiago Island alsoKnownAs San Salvador Island
Family Islands hasPart San Salvador Island
Gerace Research Centre locatedIn San Salvador Island
Out Islands hasIsland San Salvador Island