Tortuga Island, Haiti

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A 30-minute drive to the east of Port-de-Paix by a good, dirt road takes you to St Louis du Nord, a pretty coastal town from where sailing boats cross the 10-kilometer channel to Tortuga Island, the Caribbean’s biggest pirate base in the 17th century. Nearly 40 kilometers long, seven kilometers wide and 464 meters above the sea at its highest point, its smooth rounded shape reminded seafarers of the back of a turtle. (Tortuga in Spanish and La Tortue, its Haitian name, in French.)

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