Where to find the real treasure...

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Happy New Year, all!

(as for real treasures, forget Florida, those are long gone. As an alternative, if it was legal, you could try the Azores. According to Marx "in all, 867 ships are believed to have been lost in the Azores in the Colonial period; of these, 274 were reported lost on or near Terceira Island. Here are some of them: 1504: Caravel loaded with elephant tusks and six chests of gold from Africa. 1517L Nossa Senhora do Livramento, with 44 bronze cannons, described then as the richest ship ever to return from the East Indies. 1533: Nossa Senhora de Piedade, with 66 bronze cannons and valuable cargo from the East Indies. 1542: Reported total losses up to this date of more than 30 Spanish ships off Terceira alone; individual records were lost in a 1551 fire in Seville. 1542: Portuguese ship returning from East Indies with a treasure of porcelain, gold, silver, precious stones and "other commodities of the Orient." 1549: Spanish ship, the Santa Barbara, returning fron Panama with treasures from Peru. 1552: Two Spanish ships, the Madalena and the Santiago, returning from Panama and Havana. 1544: Flagship of Spanish fleet, laden with treasure, sunk by French pirates. 1555: Portugese ship, the Asumpcao, returning from the Far East, lost in a storm with "a great quantity of treasure aboard." 1560: Two Spanish ships, the Concepcion and the Trinidad, carrying treasure from Peru. 1586: Two Spanish ships, the Santiago and Nuestra Senora del Rosario, with valuable cargos. 1589: Two Spanish treasure ships returning from the New World, the San Cristobal and Nuestra Senora de Begonia. 1590: A Portuguese ship with a valuable cargo from the Far East and a Spanish treasure galleon. 1591: At least 88 Spanish ships lost, most near Terceira in a hurricane; six Portuguese ships returning from the East Indies and English warships also lost. 1593: Six Spanish ships in a treasure convoy lost in a hurricane off Terceira; others ships of the same convoy lost of San Miguel Island. 1608: A Portugese treasure ship, the flagship of an Armada. 1609: A Portugese treasure ship, the Sao Salvador.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/06/s...-yield-shipwrecked-riches.html?pagewanted=all)
 

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