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Port Royal
Dominique Olivier
Port Royal: the city that sank for its sins
Before there was Las Vegas, there was Port Royal: a city of pirates, plunder, and peril clinging to the southern edge of Jamaica. The 17th-century hotspot was once the beating, drunken heart of the Caribbean, until one Sunday in 1692, when the earth opened up and swallowed it whole (quite literally). There's more truth to Disney's tales of Captain Jack Sparrow than you might realise.