The fleet had departed the island of La Vieja on July 25 to continue the search for the elusive island of Bimini, sailing amongst very low lying Lucayan islands (today's Bahamas Islands and the ...

the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León departed Puerto Rico for the verdant island of “Bimini”—an uncharted land in what is now the Bahamas. He eventually landed instead in Florida ...

On this day in 1514, the Spanish crown granted the explorer Juan Ponce de León a contract to settle the islands of Bimini and Florida — Ponce de León at the time believed Florida was also an ...

Ponce de Leon may have named the place then ... "The Columbus family, who had the charter for Cuba and the Bahamas, was angry that the Beimeni/Bimini charter had not been issued to them.

Legend has it that, based on information gleaned from natives, Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth, a fabled water source on the island of Bimini that was said to bring eternal ...

This is the second part of the article on Juan Ponce de Leon. Juan Ponce de Leon struck out for Bimini with Anton de Alaminos, who had been a pilot for Christopher Columbus. On March 3 ...

Ponce de Leon may have named the place then ... “The Columbus family, who had the charter for Cuba and the Bahamas, was angry that the Beimeni/Bimini charter had not been issued to them.

Ponce de Leon may have named the place then ... “The Columbus family, who had the charter for Cuba and the Bahamas, was angry that the Beimeni/Bimini charter had not been issued to them.