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Usage | Personal project |
Location | Island of Curacao |
Photographer | Shannon GREER c/o Alyssa Pizer Management |
Curaçao is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of the Venezuelan coast. It has a population of over 150,000 in an area of 444 square kilometers (171 square miles), and its capital is Willemstad. In the 16th and 17th centuries, sailors on long voyages would get scurvy from lack of vitamin C. According to some accounts, ill Portuguese sailors...