Pirates on the Map

Pirates were robbers at sea. These are their true stories, not the movies: press play and a little pirate ship sails each one on a real satellite map, stopping to tell it out loud.

Grace O'Malley's Voyage to the Queen

Henry Morgan's Raids

Henry Every's Voyage to the Red Sea

Captain Kidd's Voyage

Black Sam Bellamy's Whydah

Blackbeard's Voyages

Anne Bonny and Mary Read's Last Voyage

Bartholomew Roberts's Voyages

Ching Shih's Red Flag Fleet

Most of what people "know" about pirates comes from books and films. Hardly any pirate buried treasure, and walking the plank is almost all made up.
These stories are short and true, and they say where historians still disagree or a tale may be a legend.
Every tour can also open each place on Google Maps.

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