When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: pirate treasure map printable free blank

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Treasure map - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_map

    Treasure map. A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow. Regardless of the term's literary use ...

  3. Pirate code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code

    Pirate code. Treasure being divided among pirates in an illustration by Howard Pyle. A pirate code, pirate articles, or articles of agreement were a code of conduct for governing ships of pirates, notably between the 17th and 18th centuries, during the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy". The typical pirate crew was an unorthodox mixture of former ...

  4. Piracy in the Atlantic World - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Atlantic_World

    Howard Pyle's doodle of the carriage of a treasure chest by two pirates, a Caucasian and a black man, as they are led by pirate captain William Kidd. Seafaring "became one of the most common male occupations" for Africans and African-Americans in the early 19th century. Black sailors filled about one-fifth of the population at various sea havens.

  5. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy

    At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton. ForeEdge. ISBN 978-1-61168-515-2. Little, Benerson (2011). How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away with It: the Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500-1800. Fair Winds Press. Kuhn, Gabriel (2010).

  6. Portal:Piracy/Selected article - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Piracy/Selected_article

    A treasure map is a variation of a map to mark the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret, or a hidden locale.More common in fiction than in reality, "Pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.

  7. St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine_Pirate...

    The St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum is a museum dedicated to pirate artifacts. Formerly known as the Pirate Soul Museum, the museum was located at 524 Front Street, Key West, Florida, United States. It was announced in February 2010 that the museum was being moved to St Augustine, Florida. It reopened there on December 8, 2010, as the St ...

  8. Captain Veale - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Veale

    Hiram Marble's excavation of Veale's treasure at Dungeon Rock (Lynn, MA), from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 1878). “Captain Veale” was the name shared by two unrelated Massachusetts pirates active in the 17th century. The first, Thomas Veale, was known for legends of his buried treasure. The second Veale attacked ships along ...

  9. Tusket Islands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusket_Islands

    The islands stretch along the coast from Pinkney's Point to Wedgeport. Big Tusket Island has the highest elevation at 31 metres and Bald Tusket Island has an elevation of 16 metres. The islands include: Murder Island (also known as Île du Massacre) - Local lore attributes the numerous human remains found on the island to the extermination of ...