The Bahamas

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a North American, English-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred island that form an archipelago. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and the United States, north of Cuba, the island of Hispanola and the Caribbean, and northwest of the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Whatever the area may have been populated previously by, the seafaring Taino people moved into the southern Bahamas around the 7th century from Florida and Cuba. These people came to be known as the Lucayan. There were an estimated 30,000+ Lucayans at the time of Columbus' arrival in 1492. Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the New World was on an island he named San Salvador (known to the Lucayans as Guanahahani) which may be Samana Cay or present-day San Salvador Island (also known as Walter's Island), in the central part of the Bahamas archipelago. Here, Columbus made contact with the Lucayans and... full article at wikipedia