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Samana Cay is a small island in the central Bahamas, uninhabited most of the time, and believed by some researchers to have been the location of Columbus 's first landfall, on ...
SAMANA CAY,
Encyclopedia ... island, Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean, NE of Crooked Island. Samana Cay is uninhabited for most of the year.
Samana Cay -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Samana Cay:islet, eastern Bahamas, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Acklins Island. About 10 miles (16 km) long and up to 2 miles (3 km) wide ...

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Samana Cay, island, Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Crooked Island. Samana Cay is uninhabited for most of the year. In the mid-1980s a recalculation of the distances and compass directions in the daily log of Christopher Columbus in 1492, as well as archaeological evidence found on the cay, led a number of scientists to declare that Samana Cay was the site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World. Previously, San Salvador had been accepted as the island on which Columbus first landed.