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PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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The end of the ‘wickedest city’: The world has plenty of wicked cities, but the Jamaican trading and pirate center of Port Royal earned its nickname from the swashbuckling thieves who robbed other ships and fought and gambled in what became the Caribbean’s largest community. In 1692, however, a major earthquake shattered the city, killing at least 2,000 people, Nat Geo History reports. The quake and follow-up tsunami also liquified the sand spit Port Royal was built on, “sinking” it. Builders and residents moved across the harbor to expand Kingston, Jamaica’s present-day capital. (Pictured above, removing contents of a bottle found during a 1959 excavation.)
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