[rdl6989]

The Watling Island/Samana Cay debate is an interesting one. Back in the 1980's, National Geographic suggested (IIRC)Samana Cay and the Smithsonian proposed Watling. Could the shorelines of the islands have changed so much in five centuries that the "bays" no longer exist but once did?

[SunkenCiv]

Pickering has a number of other pages that deal with different bits of evidence, and while I think his conclusion is full of it, the information is very good.

Landfall Clues: Maps
by Keith A. Pickering

The la Cosa map is also significant because it is the only existing map of the landfall drawn by any member of the first voyage. The map shows Guanahani, the landfall island, apparently as a small group of islets, lying roughly east-west. Guanahani is also shown as lying at the longitude of the Windward Passage, between Cuba and Hispaniola.