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Bahamas

Columbus named his first landfall San Salvador. Its people, the Lucayans, called it Guanahani, and historians still argue over exactly which island it was.

Where its story happens

San Salvador Island, at 24.04°N, 74.50°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.

Five things to know about the Bahamas

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's the Bahamas, a chain of islands in the Atlantic, southeast of Florida and north of Cuba. See the Bahamas on a map.
  2. Its capital is Nassau, and its Bimini islands are only about 80 km from Florida.
  3. It has about 700 islands, and on one of them pigs swim out to meet the boats.
  4. In the early 1700s its main harbour was a pirate stronghold, a base for Blackbeard.
  5. Columbus first set foot in the Americas on one of this country's islands, in 1492.

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