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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf island
administrativeStatus district of the Bahamas
alsoKnownAs Guanahani NERFINISHED
Watling Island NERFINISHED
belongsTo Commonwealth of The Bahamas NERFINISHED
climate tropical
country Bahamas
countryCapital Nassau NERFINISHED
currency Bahamian dollar NERFINISHED
discoveryDateClaim 12 October 1492
ethnicGroups Afro-Bahamian NERFINISHED
European Bahamian NERFINISHED
formerName Watling Island NERFINISHED
governedAs district of the Bahamas
governingBody Government of the Bahamas NERFINISHED
hasAirport San Salvador Airport NERFINISHED
San Salvador International Airport NERFINISHED
hasAttraction Columbus Monument NERFINISHED
Dixon Hill Lighthouse NERFINISHED
diving sites
hasCity Cockburn Town NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
language English
largestSettlement Cockburn Town NERFINISHED
locatedEastOf New Providence NERFINISHED
locatedIn Atlantic Ocean
Lucayan Archipelago NERFINISHED
locatedSoutheastOf Eleuthera NERFINISHED
marineActivity fishing
scuba diving
snorkeling
marineEnvironment coral reefs
namedAfter San Salvador NERFINISHED
nearbySea Caribbean Sea NERFINISHED
partOf District of San Salvador NERFINISHED
populationCharacteristic sparsely populated
primaryEconomicActivity tourism
region Out Islands of the Bahamas NERFINISHED
religion Christianity
renamedIn 1925
timezone Eastern Time Zone
transport served by regional flights

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Guanahani historicallyIdentifiedWith San Salvador Island
Guanahani commonlyIdentifiedWith San Salvador Island
Guanahani hasModernNameCandidate San Salvador Island
Out Islands of the Bahamas hasPart San Salvador Island