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Ponce de León Island
Ponce de León Island was a proposed name for the long barrier island stretching from Cape Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet in Brevard County in central Florida, located on the Atlantic Ocean. Another proposed name for this area was Ais Island after the native Ais people who originally inhabited the area. Currently, the island has not yet been designated any official name.
== History ==
Since 2000, historians from Brevard County have worked to name this stretch of land to Ponce de León Island due to a theory originated by Douglas Peck that the Spanish explorer and soldier Juan Ponce de León first landed there in 1513 as the first European to set foot in Florida.〔Datzman, Ken. "Did the famous explorer Ponce de Leon first hit Melbourne Beach", ''Brevard Business News'', vol 30, no. 1 (Melbourne, Florida: January 02, 2012), p. 1 and 19.〕 This contests the once popular view that Ponce de León first landed in St. Augustine.〔 The American Indian Association of Florida also proposed the name Ais Island for this area, sparking a controversy.〔Neale, Rick. ("Lines drawn over naming of Brevard's barrier island" ), ''Florida Today'', January 14, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2012.〕 Both proposals were considered by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) in 2012, but no name was approved.
Many beach-side cities who were formally for the naming of Ponce de Leon have since rescinded their previous decisions based on the revelation of old evidence of Ponce's treatment of the Taino Indians in Puerto Rico and that Peck's theory is not universally accepted as fact.
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