Port Royal: The Sodom of the New World

Learn about the wild past of Port Royal, once called "the wickedest city on earth," and its pirate-filled days, and how it all came crashing down in a huge earthquake in 1692. Discover how this once-bustling place turned into a sunken town, now just a small fishing village and historical site in Jamaica.

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Port Royal, Fort Charles Full Tour, Giddy House, Jamaica
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References:
Cornish, Vaughan. “The Jamaica Earthquake (1907).” The Geographical Journal 31, no. 3 (1908): 245–71.

Fuller, Myron L. “Notes on the Jamaica Earthquake.” The Journal of Geology 15, no. 7 (1907): 696–721.