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Explore the travels and exploits of five real pirates of the Caribbean. Click through the tabs to track the adventures of each pirate overlaid on Spanish ports and pirate strongholds in the area. Zoom into the map to see additional detail.
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Scooped by Seth Dixon |
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Seth Dixon's insight:
This interactive StoryMap is great way to show the historical and geographic context of colonial-era piracy in the Caribbean.
Tags: Middle America, ESRI, mapping, historical.
This pirate excursion map is so cool and gives a great look at the travels of different pirates. As we get farther away from these time periods, it seems like the idea of these Caribbean pirates are fictional. To hear true historical events about these individual pirates is very interesting. I would love to take a time machine back to Port Royal during these times to experience that madness.
Imagine the horror a native of the Caribbean must have felt when white men came into their scenic lands and pillaged their villages and plundered their treasuries? Blackbeard otherwise known as Edward Teach, would light slow burning cannon fuses and place them in his beard to create an aura about him as he fought and raided these port of call. Calico Jack Rackham, a great pirate name if there ever was one, was best known for having a pair of female pirates aboard. Instantly becomes one of my heroes! Then you have William Parker who was actually an opportunist backed by England who plundered Spanish treasures throughout Central America. Here is my favorite pirate joke; what is a pirate's favorite letter? "R" you say? No, it's the letter "C", pirates love the sea....
very interesting interactive map