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

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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 ⓘ