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This Caribbean Island’s Sunken City Was a Pirate Stronghold—and Now It’s a New UNESCO World Heritage Site

Port Royal, Jamaica, was once known as the "Wickedest City on Earth." UNESCO just added Port Royal to its World Heritage Site list for its deep cultural and historical importance to Jamaica and the ...
USA Today

Port Royal added as Jamaica's second UNESCO World Heritage Site

UNESCO has designated Jamaica's Port Royal as a World Heritage site. Port Royal is known for its history as a pirate haven and its role in the transatlantic slave trade. A 1692 earthquake submerged a ...
MassLive

Travel: Jamaica seeks heritage status for sunken port

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Archaeologists will ask the United Nations’ cultural agency to bestow world heritage status on Port Royal, the mostly submerged remains of a historic Jamaican port known as the ...
Travel + Leisure

This Caribbean Island’s Sunken City Was a Pirate Stronghold—and Now It’s a New UNESCO World Heritage Site

UNESCO just added Port Royal to its World Heritage Site list for its deep cultural and historical importance to Jamaica and the Caribbean. Once a pirate stronghold, the city was destroyed in a 1692 ...
AOL

Port Royal added as Jamaica's second UNESCO World Heritage Site

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better known by its acronym, UNESCO, added a second heritage site in Jamaica this week, at Port Royal. According to the Jamaica ...