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	Samana Cay Landfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Samana Cay is a small island lying north of Acklins Island in the central Bahamas.
		The Samana Cay theory was first proposed in 1882 by Gustavus V. Fox, a former Undersecretary of the Navy.
		The Samana theory route: Island I = Samana Cay; Island II = Crooked-Acklins; Island III = Long Island; Island IV = Fortune Island.
	www.columbusnavigation.com /samana.shtml (408 words)

	Samana Cay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		It was first proposed as the location by Gustavus Fox in 1882, but the predominant theory for most of the 20th century gave the honor to San Salvador Island or to Guanahani (see that 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samana_Cay (162 words)

	Guanahani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samana Cay was first proposed in 1882 by Gustavus V. Fox, a US Navy captain.
		Plana Cays was first proposed by Ramon Juan Didiez Burgos in 1974 and revived by Keith A. Pickering in 1994.
		This is only possible on Plana Cays, Conception and Egg, and to a certain extent on Samana Cay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guanahani (811 words)

	Home > Stories > The Samana Cay Project
		Three expeditions were planned for that year: a scouting expedition with two or three people to investigate the island and get a feeling for what resources were available; an infastructure expedition with five to ten people to establish basic housing, water, sewage, and agriculture; and then the colonization expedition.
		The only report we got about Samana Cay was from a friend of a friend of a fishing guide operating out of Miami.
		We agreed to leave for Samana Cay the next morning and went to sleep on the beach.
	www.thoughtcrime.org /travel/samana.html (1523 words)

	ブリタニカ・ジャパン - Encyclopædia Britannica A-Z Browse
		Samana serves as a commercial and manufacturing centre for the hinterland, which...
		Bounded on the north by the Samana Peninsula, the bay measures about 40 miles (65 km) east-west and 15 miles (25 km) north-south.
		About 10 miles (16 km) long and up to 2 miles (3 km) wide and bound by reefs, the verdant cay has long been uninhabited, but figurines, pottery shards, and other artifacts discovered there in the mid-1980s have been...
	www.britannica.co.jp /azbrowse/s/s14.html (2057 words)

	Samana Cay - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Samana Cay, island, Bahamas, one of the Bahama Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, north-east of Crooked Island.
		Consecutive European explorations in North America began with the voyage made in 1492 by Christopher Columbus in the service of Spain.
		Cay, small island composed primarily of sand and coral.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Samana_Cay.html (109 words)

	Plana Cays Landfall: 1 of 4
		[2] Among the theorists are Arne Molander[3] with Egg Island, Joseph Judge[4] with Samana Cay, Pieter Verhoog with Caicos, Dr. Stephen Mitchell with Conception, Robert H. Power with Grand Turk, and Ramon Didiez Burgos with the Plana Cays.
		Rum Cay is only a third (or less) the size of Island II; while it is clear that if the north coasts of Crooked and Acklins are considered a continuous coastline, we have a nearly perfect fit.
		Samana Cay is at the right distance from Acklins, but it is in the wrong direction and does not match the description, since it has no north-northeast coastline.
	www.columbusnavigation.com /plana1.shtml (2648 words)

	Goodbye Columbus, hello Samana Cay - new study reports Christopher Columbus first landed at Samana Cay Science News - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The explorer first landed on the narrow, 9-mile-long island of Samana Cay in the Bahamas, according to a report presented at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., last week.
		Earlier this year, Judge and several co-workers, including archaeologists Charles Hoffman and Nancy Hoffman of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, confirmed that Samana Cay was inhabited, at least seasonally, at the time of Columbus's arrival.
		Samana Cay was first proposed in 1882 by Gustavus Fox, who had been Abraham Lincoln's assistant secretary of the Navy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_v130/ai_4501480 (510 words)

	Paleogeography of the Bahamas and the Columbus Landfall Question
		Such comparisons rest on the implicit assumption that the present characteristics of the islands have remained unchanged during the past 500 years.
		However, integration of paleoclimatic, geological and historical data of hemispheric, regional and local scale indicates that environmental conditions on the Bahamas and the region of the Greater Caribbean have changed substantially since 1492.
		A hydrogeologic computer model suggests the former existence, under environmental condition theorized to have existed during late 15th century, of a sizable interior surface water feature on Samana Cay that may correspond to the laguna described by Columbus.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/paleogeography (280 words)

	pictures - Page 2 - DR1 Forums
		Is Samana the name of the entire region, the island or the general area of the Carribean?
		Once a island, now a peninsula, Samana is a region, north east on the island of Hispaniola.
		"Samana Peninsula", not to be confuse with "Samana Cay" a small island in the Bahamas.
	www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?p=124576 (726 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		"It follows, of course, that the history books are wrong." Samana Cay, an uninhabited island surrounded by a treach- erous reef, is the actual site of Columbus' landing early on the morning of Oct. 12, 1492, according to articles in the November issue of National Geographic magazine, published Wednesday.
		After reaching the hypothesis that Samana Cay was Columbus' first landfall, members of the research group went to the island, seeking confirmation from the voyage's log that it was indeed the site.
		Period pottery was found there, indicating that the island was inhabited or at least visited by natives in Columbus' time, fitting his description of encountering natives at dawn on the day after the discovery.
	www.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/art/NORWOOD1.ART (517 words)

	Cruising the Bahamas with Columbus, 1492
		In 1986 the National Geographic Society (NGS) reopened the controversy by espousing a landfall at Samana Cay.
		To him it was "formed like an island although it is not one, on which there are six houses; it could be converted into an island in two days." Your closer inspection will also show that it's bridged to Royal by marl-covered shallows not deep enough to keep Indians at bay.
		Note the north coast's lack of anchorage and consider the impracticality of an anchorage in the swiftly flowing tides at Nassau.
	www.pelicanpower.com /AbacoGuide/cruisingwithcolumbus.htm (1933 words)

	Samana Cay - MSN Encarta
		Samana Cay, island, Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Crooked Island.
		Samana Cay is uninhabited for most of the year.
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565139/Samana_Cay.html (55 words)

	ilangDR - Institute of Languages, history: Columbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Although the voyage of discovery of Columbus is the best documented cruise of the late Middle Ages thanks to his detailed logbook, one cannot definitely say on which of the Bahama Islands the Spanish went ashore on October 12th, 1492.
		Two islands are favored: San Salvador, the former Watling Island, and Samana Cay - a small, uninhabited island southwest of San Salvador.
		Among the most likely possibilities are Plana Cays and Mayaguana, two islands south and southwest of Samana Cay Much speaks in favor of one of these, since they leave little doubt in comparison to the other theories.
	www.ilangdr.com /en/columbus.asp (388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Participants easily dismissed Samana Cay as a possible landfall, and as the symposium progressed, evidence shifted from Watling-San Salvador to Grand Turk.
		He wanted to resolve his doubts about the National Geographic claim that Samana Cay was the Columbus landfall, because the finding was based on computer simulations not tested on the water.
		This was Long Island, and is accurately given, with the distance from the second island, of Rum Cay, the general trend of its shores, and configuration.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/new/ICQA-5-2.NEW (7279 words)

	Trip to the Dominican Republic, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Nonetheless, and despite the difficult road (some three miles of unpaved track), it is still worth it..
		After that, a quick swing by Samaná city and a hike through the pedestrian bridge to Samaná Cay.
		I think that this is a very difficult place to reach, since the hotel on top of the hill that leads to the entrance is being remodeled after a prolonged period of decay.
	www.glosas.net /images/2004rd/htm/en (1865 words)

	SAN SALVADOR
		Some scientists doubted that Watling was an accurate match to his description, and in the mid-1980s they proposed the smaller island
		SAMANA CAY, (q.v.) as his original landing point.
		The local Indians referred to Columbus’s San Salvador as Guanahaní.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..sa036300.a#FWNE.fw..sa036300.a (453 words)

	BoatUS.com Cruising Log
		There is a small price for staying at Samana Cay -- where some people theorize Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the New World - and we were happy to pay it.
		That was only about 25 miles from where we were at the time, so we did what we felt we must; we moved as fast as we could 150 miles in the opposite direction, seeking immunity from that theatre of organized joviality.
		The island is off the beaten path and ignored by most cruisers except when they're making a passage north or south to the Caribbean and want a good all-weather anchorage to duck into during the frequent cold fronts that cycle through the Bahamas all winter.
	www.boatus.com /cruising/ithaka/200504-01.asp (2587 words)

	JASA: Bahamas Itineraries
		We will dive the edge of the famous Cay Sal Blue Holes where most of the dives will be less that forty feet.
		This area is like a triangle with Chub Cay, the southernmost island in the Berry chain to our north, Jolters Cays to the west and Andros to our south.
		Samana Cay and the Plana Cays (formally known as French Cays) are some of the most picturesque islands in the world.
	www.scuba-adventures.com /bahamas_itineraries.shtml (4062 words)

	cay - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Cay, cay : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include cay: green cay, samana cay, thatch cay, cay neu, cay qel-droma, more...
		Words similar to cay: isle, key, florida keys, island, islet, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=cay (223 words)

	THE TRITON — nautical news for captains and crews
		According to crew members in the area at the time, she was the only boat on the water late that afternoon.
		The pieces have been removed from the reef and deposited on Arawak Cay at the mouth of Nassau Harbor, Marcus said.
		It sent a helicopter to rescue its eight crew members about 60 miles northeast of Samana Cay in the central Bahamas.
	www.the-triton.com /archives/stories/mar2006_02.htm (621 words)

	History and Geography of the Bahamas
		Only once, at Whale Cay, during the entire length of this beautiful sound does the skipper have to exit to the ocean, and then only for a few miles.
		Hope Town was founded on Elbow Cay in 1783 by the Tory widow Wayannie Malone, who moved her family here from Charleston, S.C. By 1880 it had one thousand people, engaged in farming and ship building.
		In 1860 it was estimated that property valued at 112,000 pounds sterling had been picked from wrecks in the neighborhood in a little over a year.
	www.abacoguide.net /his&geo.htm (6269 words)

	Island Hopping Rants & Raves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Most maroonings led to death for those marooned, but the lucky band that was banished to Green Cay survived, probably due to the indecisiveness of the very men that marooned them.
		They left them aboard the sloop, but before leaving they fouled the main sheet, cut the huge foresail to the size of a small jib, and then continued to slash the sails and rigging to pieces until the sloop was virtually useless.
		With the aid of the dogs the group was able to catch some of the hogs on the cay and dine on roast pork.
	www.islandhopping.com /rants.html (10767 words)

	Common Ground 191
		When Columbus reached the New World in 1492, he made his first landfall in the New World on either San Salvador or Samana Cay, in the Eastern Bahamas.
		The Bahamas are a nation of some 700 subtropical islands and more than 2,000 islets or cays (about 30 of which are populated), extending about 600 miles (970 km) from the coast of Florida, southeast toward Haiti.
		Columbus and the Spaniards made no attempt to settle, but operated slave raids on the peaceful Arawak, depopulating the islands which were uninhabited by the time the English arrived.
	www.commonground191.com /journal/bahamas.htm (1730 words)

	Turks and Caicos Island in the Caribbean
		The islands has one of the longest coral reefs in the world, areason to welcome visitors eager to practice diving, one of the islands' main attractions.
		At Six Hill Cay reservation, Ambergris Cay, Cayo Largo and Pine Cay you will find seabeds of indescribable beauty and gorgeous beaches where conditions for water sports are guaranteed.
		Other entertainment places are the Counch Caves, the Three May Cays Natural Reserve and Molasse Reef for archaeology and nature lovers.
	www.caribbeaninside.com /country.do?country=250 (259 words)

	All Hands, May 1989
		East of Samana, Dominican Republic, bound West from PR BDA to VI...
		Have to pass Mayaguana Cay and Plana Cay.
		Samana Cay in sight to NW at 1030.
	members.valley.net /~townsend/PH_Journal/AH_89-05.html (3499 words)

	Exploring The Bahamas by Live Aboard
		The general areas include the western Bahamas, Cay Sal, the Berry Islands, Andros, Eleuthera, the Exumas, Little San Salvador, Cat Island, Conception Island, Rum Cay, San Salvador, Crooked Island and Memory Rock.
		The Exuma Cays, a remote island chain stretching nearly 100 miles along the edge of the Great Bahama Bank southeast of Nassau, are home ground for Sea Dragon.
		Instead, it cruises the length and breadth of The Bahamas, from the Abacos to Cay Sal to San Salvador and beyond.
	www.skin-diver.com /departments/DiveTheWorld/CarribeanAndBermuda/Bahamas/BahamasDiver/explore_oct00.asp (1174 words)

	San Salvador and Rum Cay : In Depth \| Frommers.com
		National Geographic published a meticulously researched article in 1986 written by its senior associate editor, Joseph Judge, with a companion piece by the former chief of the magazine's foreign editorial staff, Luis Marden.
		The articles set forth the belief that Samana Cay, some 105km (65 miles) to the southeast of the present San Salvador, was actually Guanahani, the island Columbus named San Salvador when he first landed in the New World.
		The question may never be absolutely resolved, but there will doubtless be years and years of controversy about it.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/sansalvadorandrumcay/0298010012.html (552 words)

	History - Bahamas - Caribbean: bahamas history, bahamas island, christopher columbus, hubert ingraham, american ...
		In 1492 Christopher Columbus made his first landing in the New World in the Bahamas, on an island then inhabited by Arawak people.
		He named the island San Salvador; some scientists now believe it to be Samana Cay.
		The first permanent European inhabitants were not the Spanish, however, but the British, who settled Eleuthera and New Providence in 1647.
	www.countriesquest.com /caribbean/bahamas/history.htm (314 words)

	Notorious Places--Blindkat's Pirates of the Caribbean
		When Columbus reached the New World in 1492, he is thought to have landed on San Salvador (also called Watling Island) or possibly Samana Cay, both in the Bahamas.
		The Spaniards made no attempt to settle but operated slave raids on the peaceful Arawak that depopulated the islands, and by the time the English arrived the Bahamas were uninhabited.
		One such Cay, Rackham Cay is the place where Calico Jack Rackham was hung in irons as a warning to other sea farers.
	blindkat.hegewisch.net /pirates/notorius.html (1557 words)

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