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Description: This Island was named after St.Martin of Tours on whose feast day, November 11, 1493, Columbus first saw these shores.
History of St.Maarten/St.Martin and more... usr/www/users/gobeach2/inc/header_sxm.php"); ?> History of St.Maarten/St.Martin Close to 500 years ago, an Italian sea captain financed by Spanish royalty went looking for new lands to conquer, if not to conquer, at least to claim. He found a vast amount of unexpected real estate, as history has so often recited, and it was he who named this island St.Martin. Whether Christopher Columbus landed here, anchored here of merely sailed past, he literally put this 37 square miles of mountain top on the map.
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