La Blanquilla, Venezuela

Not much shipping passed within sight of La Blanquilla, just off the coast of Venezuela, making it a “good hideout for those trying to dodge authorities out of Barbados and French Martinique,” says author Colin Woodard, the author of a new book abour piracy's golden age, The Republic of Pirates. Just a few months after “Black Sam” Bellamy set up camp here in the 18th century, his flagship, the Whydah, sank off the coast off Cape Cod, where it was finally discovered in 1984; for the first time, some of those treasures will embark on a national tour in June, 2007.

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