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This tiny patch of land, 63 sq miles in area, is at the center of a momentous turning point in history, for it was here that Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the New World, on 12 October 1492.
Gaspé, the first Canadian landfall of Jacques Cartier in 1534, is a Micmac Indian word for Land’s End, and this is indeed southern Québec’s most remote region, 700 km (420 miles) from Québec City.
Thousands of residents along the southeastern coast of Texas fled in advance of the hurricane, which lost strength Sunday afternoon and made landfall in a sparsely populated area south of Corpus Christi and north of Brownsville.
The sailors’ first landfall was on the little offshore island of Tanegashima, which has progressed from matchlocks and muskets to being Japan’s principal rocket-launching center.
For one thing, they dispute nearby San Salvador’s claim to be the landing place of Columbus; they still feel, as archaeologists and historians used to, that the explorer first made landfall on their island.