Port Royal — Jamaica's Submerged Maritime Archaeology
A UNESCO-listed Caribbean port whose earthquake-submerged remains record seventeenth-century maritime trade and colonial history.
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A UNESCO-listed Caribbean port whose earthquake-submerged remains record seventeenth-century maritime trade and colonial history. The site's defining history is the rise and destruction of a Caribbean seaport and the unusually preserved underwater evidence of its maritime network.
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The site's defining history is the rise and destruction of a Caribbean seaport and the unusually preserved underwater evidence of its maritime network.
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