SanMan
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~ Cocos Island ~
There is an enormous amount of history on Cocos Island
I'll get the story started, hoping other members will jump in and help build up the thread
There is an enormous amount of history on Cocos Island
I'll get the story started, hoping other members will jump in and help build up the thread
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Immense quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and church treasures amounting to from
$65,000,000 to $100,000,000, (1968 dollars), allegedly lie hidden on Cocos, an
island four miles long and six miles wide in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Costa Rica.
The spot is internationally famous among treasure hunters and more than 400
expeditions, large and small,have visited the island. They have dug, blasted, tunneled,
and searched for the loot of Lima.
Since the 1880's Cocos has been visited annually by small and large digging
parties, yachtsmen, explorers, sealers, whalers, millionaires, and just plain treasure hunters.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt stopped there and turned his crew loose
on the island for a day's treasure hunting with "Go and get it boys"
Cocos, not to be confused with the Cocos-Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean, lies
in the Pacific Ocean. It is about 550 miles due west of Panama City and belongs to
Costa Rica. the nearest port is Puntarenas, Costa Rica, some 300 miles away.
There are only two safe anchorages and landing places; one named Wafer Bay
after Lionel Wafer, a buccaneer who landed on the island with Captain Edward Davis
in 1685. Wafer described the island as pleasant, with water pouring down from the
unexplored high cliffs, "as out of a bucket". A charming place, and delightful to several
of the senses at once.
Immense quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and church treasures amounting to from
$65,000,000 to $100,000,000, (1968 dollars), allegedly lie hidden on Cocos, an
island four miles long and six miles wide in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Costa Rica.
The spot is internationally famous among treasure hunters and more than 400
expeditions, large and small,have visited the island. They have dug, blasted, tunneled,
and searched for the loot of Lima.
Since the 1880's Cocos has been visited annually by small and large digging
parties, yachtsmen, explorers, sealers, whalers, millionaires, and just plain treasure hunters.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt stopped there and turned his crew loose
on the island for a day's treasure hunting with "Go and get it boys"
Cocos, not to be confused with the Cocos-Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean, lies
in the Pacific Ocean. It is about 550 miles due west of Panama City and belongs to
Costa Rica. the nearest port is Puntarenas, Costa Rica, some 300 miles away.
There are only two safe anchorages and landing places; one named Wafer Bay
after Lionel Wafer, a buccaneer who landed on the island with Captain Edward Davis
in 1685. Wafer described the island as pleasant, with water pouring down from the
unexplored high cliffs, "as out of a bucket". A charming place, and delightful to several
of the senses at once.
