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1492 light sighting
The 1492 light sighting was a sighting of unknown light during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus on October 11, 1492, by some crew members of ''Santa Maria'', ''Pinta'' and possibly ''Niña'' shortly before the landing on Guanahani. The light was reported in Columbus' journal, Ferdinand Columbus' ''Vita del Ammiraglio'' (''The Life of the Admiral''), the proceedings of the ''Pleitos colombinos'' (the long lawsuit involving the heirs of Columbus) and some other sources.〔
Columbus described the light as "a small wax candle that rose and lifted up, which to few seemed to be an indication of land". He received the royal reward for the sighting.〔Washington Irving. ''The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus: together with the voyages of his companions, Volume 3'', Murray, 1849, p. 369〕 His son Ferdinand also characterized it as a candle, that went up and down.〔Christopher Columbus, Sir Clement Robert Markham. ''The journal of Christopher Columbus: (during his first voyage, 1492–93)'', Ayer Publishing, 1972, p. 36〕
==Circumstances==
Bartolomé de las Casas noted the event in his abstract of Columbus's log: "A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana saw this land first, although the Admiral, at the tenth hour of the night, while he was on the sterncastle saw a light, although it was something so faint that he did not wish to affirm that it was land. But he called Pero Gutierrez, the steward of the king's dais, and told him that there seemed to be a light, and for him to look: and thus he did and saw it".〔
It was calculated that the twelve leagues, that the crew ran since 10 p.m., with the two leagues distance off the land, essentially correspond to the distance and location of Watling's Island from Guanahani.〔 As such, it was presumed that the light was on Watling's Island, which was passed by Columbus.〔 Judging by the speed of the ships, provided in naval journal, L. T. Gould supposed that the light "must have been some 35 miles or so eastward of the landfall, and well to windward of it".〔"Landfall of Columbus", ''The Geographical Journal'', May 1927〕
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