Original People
The indigenous Carib Kalinago people called the island Wai’tukubuli, meaning ‘Tall is her body’ because it is so mountainous. Dominica is the Latin name given by Christopher Columbus to the island when
he sighted it on Sunday 3 November 1493 during his second voyage and christened it ‘Dies Dominica’, for “the day of the Lord”. In French it is La Dominique. It first appears on a map of the world in 1500.