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William Vincent Astor, heir to the Astor family fortune after his father died on the Titanic, was a passive investor in digging for treasure on the island. [57] Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Jr. was also a passive investor in Oak Island exploration and treasure hunting, and monitored their status. [4]
August Gissler (9 September 1857 in Remscheid – 8 August 1935 in New York City) was a German adventurer and treasure hunter who, with brief interruptions, lived on Cocos Island from 1889 until 1908.
Murder Island (also known as Île du Massacre) - Local lore attributes the numerous human remains found on the island to the extermination of slaves brought up from the Caribbean or Africa subsequent to their work in the construction of subterranean architecture relating to the Oak Island treasure mystery.
Legendary Island of Apples, believed by some to be the final resting place of King Arthur. Camelot: The city in which King Arthur reigned. Cantre'r Gwaelod: A legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island. Celliwig: The earliest named location for the court of King ...
Map created by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island. A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.
It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker). The origins of the name of Davy Jones , the sailors' devil , are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a "ghost of Jonah ".
Frederick G. Nolan (July 5, 1927 – June 4, 2016) was a Canadian land surveyor as well as a known Oak Island treasure hunter. He appeared on the History Channel 's TV series about the island, The Curse of Oak Island , in episodes 7 and 8 of season 3.
The Depths may refer to: The Lower Depths, a play by Maxim Gorky; Na Dne, former name of Put Domoi, a Russian street newspaper; The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic, a 2014 book by Jonathan Rottenberg; The Depths (2019 film), a 2019 Canadian film directed by Ariane Louis-Seize.