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Samana Cay

Samana Cay is an uninhabited island in the southeastern portion of . It is considered by some researchers to have been the location of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in The Bahamas
  • Also known as: “Atwood Cay” and “Atwood’s Cay”

Samana Cay

Latitude
23.0849° or 23° 5′ 6″ north
Longitude
-73.74315° or 73° 44′ 35″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
77M837M4+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 22579317
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3571529
Wiki­data ID
Q1738882
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Satellite Map

Discover Samana Cay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Samana Cay”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.