Jamaica - Jubilee Square, Port Royal

Slide showing a photograph of a mast on the sand at Port Royal, named after Queen Victoria's jubilee. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in south-eastern Jamaica. Founded in 1518, it was the centre of shipping commerce in the Caribbean Sea during the latter half of the 17th century. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and subsequent fires, hurricanes, flooding, and another earthquake in 1907.. Part of Box 108. Boswell Collection. Slide number 48. Jamaica, officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica is south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the West Indies

1518 1692 Antilles Containing Dominican Earthquake Fires Flooding Haiti Hispaniola Hurricanes Jamaica Jamaican Jubilee Kingston Latter Mast Officially Situated Subsequent

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