The island where Columbus landed in 1492 was called Guanahani by the Indians who lived there. Exactly which island it was has puzzled experts for many years.
Until the 1980s. Wading Island in the Bahamas renamed San Salvador in 1926, had long been the favourite — with three monuments marking the event. Then a group of experts began to re-examine the evidence. They plotted the route across the Atlantic, using computers to take account of wind speed, currents and magnetic variations.
Their conclusion was that Guanahani could only have been one of two places — Wading Island or Samana , miles (100km) to the south-west. They claim that Samana Cay’s landscape and surroundings fit Columbus’s description better than San Salvador, but the controversy continues.
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