Marden and The Guanahani Debate
In 1986, Marden and his wife Ethel Cox Marden, who was trained as a mathematician, attempted to replot the route they believed Christopher Columbus must have taken across the Atlantic. Though officially retired, Marden set sail from the Canary Islands to retrace Columbus's voyage to the New World. The Mardens concluded that Columbus made his first landfall -Columbus' "Guanahani"- at Samana Cay, not at San Salvador Island, also posited as Columbus' landfall, arguing that Columbus had actually landed much farther south than was initially believed.
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