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    Great Captain Island, also known more familiarly as "Great Captain's Island," is an island off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut. The 17.2-acre (7.0 ha)...
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    Great Captain Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Great Captain Island in the western Long Island Sound off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut, United...
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    beaches in 2001. These beaches include Greenwich Point Park, Island Beach, Great Captain Island, and Byram Park. According to the United States Census Bureau...
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    of Masters and Pilots for New York Bay and Harbor to Yonkers and Great Captain Island: And a Complete New York Pilot Containing All Useful Information...
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    Great Barrier Island (Māori: Aotea) lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-east of central Auckland. With an area of...
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    James Cook (redirect from Captain Cook)
    Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three...
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    boat and its crew was beached on what was then known as the Great Sandy Island. Captain Fraser died, leaving his wife Eliza and the second mate Mr Baxter...
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    The Mysterious Island, the captain is in his late sixties and sports a long white beard. He avoids dry land, except for desert islands and uninhabited...
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    settlements on Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay where they were buried or cared for by many of the Rhode Island colonists. The Great Swamp Massacre was...
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  • Young Folks under the title Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published...
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    submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Nautilus...
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    Great Keppel Island (Woppaburra: Wop-Pa) lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the coast off Yeppoon in the locality of The Keppels in the Shire of Livingstone...
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    adventure yarn Treasure Island, which was first serialised in a children's magazine in 1881, and later published as a novel in 1883. Captain Flint is a fictional...
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    Norwalk River on northern Long Island Sound. The island, at the time known as "White Island", was purchased by Captain Robert Sheffield in 1804 for $6000...
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    William Kidd (redirect from Captain Kidd)
    Kidd became captain either as a result of election by the ship's crew, or by appointment of Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis. Kidd...
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    Great Stirrup Cay is a 268-acre (108 ha) island that is part of the Berry Islands in the Bahamas. Norwegian Cruise Line purchased the island from the Belcher...
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    Eastern Isles (redirect from Great Arthur)
    the islands have species that are only found on that island and not on the other Eastern Isles such as an oak tree found by Mr and Mrs Dallas on Great Gannick...
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  • the town of Port Chester, and lies 1 mile west-northwestward of Great Captain Island. It is protected by a breakwater, which is marked at its south end...
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  • 7.6 million 9-litre cases were sold. Most Captain Morgan rum is sold in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, and Global Travel. In...
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    Whitianga. Great Mercury Island (Ahuahu) was occupied by both early Māori and Pākehā. A settler claimed to have bought Great Mercury Island in 1839. Great Mercury...
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    Nautilus is scuttled and serves as Captain Nemo's tomb.b Afterward, the island's central volcano erupts, destroying the island. Jup the orangutan falls into...
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    Heron Island is a coral cay located near the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern Great Barrier Reef. It is 80 kilometres (50 miles) north-east of Gladstone...
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    Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which...
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    New Haven), CT". Lighthousefriends.com. Retrieved March 18, 2014. "Great Captain Island Lighthouse, CT – LighthouseFriends". LighthouseFriends.com. Retrieved...
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    Great Neck is a region contained primarily within Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, which covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine...
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    the towns of Newbury, Rowley, and Ipswich. Plum Island appears as an unnamed island as early as Captain John Smith's map of New England. Various scholars...
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    permanently occupied. Captain George B. Worth of the Nantucket whaler Oeno sighted Howland around 1822 and called it Worth Island. Daniel MacKenzie of...
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  • the 1922 novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini and concerns an imprisoned doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape their cruel island captivity to become...
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    Island is a privately owned island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. The tree-covered island is one of several islands in...
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  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, often shortened to Sky Captain, is a 2004 science fiction action-adventure film written and directed by Kerry Conran...
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