Word: huitramanaland
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Sapeloe is one of the southern chain of American sea-islands mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the loth century as part of Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...
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