Samana Cay
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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 October 12, 1492.
The natives on the island that Columbus first landed on called it Guanahani. Samana Cay was first proposed to be Guanahani by Gustavus Fox in 1882, but the predominant theory for most of the 20th century gave the honor to San Salvador Island (see the Guanahani article for a list of other candidates). However, in 1986 the staff of the National Geographic magazine made new calculations based on Columbus's logs, and declared that Samana Cay was indeed the right location.
The island is nine miles long (in the east-west direction) and between 1 and 2 miles wide. Its geographical coordinates are .
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