Andros

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Andros was an island in the Bahamas. Though claimed by Great Britain, the island was mainly inhabited by smugglers and pirates.

History

Spain laid claim to the Bahamas including Andros Island after Columbus’ discovery of the islands—his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere was on the Bahamian island of San Salvador. The Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, for whom the Americas were named, on a Spanish charter spent four months exploring the Bahamas in 1499–1500, and mapped a portion of the eastern shore of Andros Island. Juan Ponce de León sailed by Andros on his journey from Cuba to Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth in 1513.^{[citation needed]}

During the late 1600s and early 1700s various pirates and buccaneers frequented Andros Island. In 1713 the Bahama Islands were declared a Pirate's Republic. Pirates raiding the Spanish treasure galleons out of Cuba maintained a settlement on South Andros.^{[citation needed]}

At some point when Jack Sparrow was an honest captain of the merchant vessel Wicked Wench for the East India Trading Company, Lady Esmeralda, the pirate captain of the Venganza, had some business on Kemps Bay, on Andros.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Andros was mentioned in the 2011 novel Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom.^[1]

Andros briefly appears in On Stranger Tides, the 1987 novel which was used as the basis for the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Also known as Isle de Loas Bossals, Andros is the place where Benjamin Hurwood summons the ghost of his dead wife.^[2]

Appearances

• The Price of Freedom (First mentioned)

Notes and references

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The Price of Freedom
2. ↑ On Stranger Tides

External links

• Andros, Bahamas on Wikipedia

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