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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Latitude
23.0849° or 23° 5′ 6″ north
Longitude
-73.74339° or 73° 44′ 36″ west
Open location code
77M837M4+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 22579317
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3571529
Wiki­data ID
Q1738882

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Samana Cay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سامانا كاي”
  • 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 Samaná”
  • Swedish: “Samana Cay”

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