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ID: 1008974
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1008974
Record Type:
physical
San Salvador (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 24 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 24.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 074 32 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -74.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Columbus' first landfall in the New World; White Cliff of High Cay in SE was site of landing, & is marked by a white cross; also called Watling's Island, after a famous bucaneer.
Names:
San Salvador
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Watling Island
(
C
,
V
)
Watling's Island
(
C
,
V
)
Guanahani
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bahamas
(nation) (
P
)
............
San Salvador
(national district) (
P
)
................
San Salvador
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
............
sighted by explorer Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492
Sources and Contributors:
Guanahani..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 826
San Salvador..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 826
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 400
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
175
Watling Island..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
213
Watling's Island..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 400
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 826
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 400; X, 400
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
175; 213
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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