Samana Cay
Samana Cay is an uninhabited island in the southeastern portion of The Bahamas. It is considered by some researchers to have been the location of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in The Bahamas
- Also known as: “Atwood Cay” and “Atwood’s Cay”
Samana Cay
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Crooked Island and Long Cay District, Bahamas, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.0849° or 23° 5′ 6″ north
Longitude
-73.74339° or 73° 44′ 36″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
77M837M4+XJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Samana Cay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Samana Cay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cai Samana”
- Cebuano: “Samana Cay”
- Chinese: “薩馬納島”
- Czech: “Samana Cay”
- Dutch: “Samana Cay”
- French: “Samana Cay”
- German: “Samana Cay”
- Greek: “Σαμάνα Κη”
- Japanese: “サマナ島”
- Polish: “Samana Cay”
- Portuguese: “Cayo Samaná”
- Russian: “Самана-Ки”
- Slovenian: “Samana Cay”
- Spanish: “Cayo Samana”
- Spanish: “Cayo Samaná”
- Swedish: “Samana Cay”
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