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San Salvador island in the Bahamas and Baffin Island in Arctic Canada are suggested as the first two likely landing spots for Europeans "discovering" the Americas.
NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided courtesy of the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.
Published October 16, 2011 Data acquired May 11, 2007