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  2. Goldeneye (estate) - Wikipedia

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    Goldeneye (estate) Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming 's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica. He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach. The three-bedroom structure was constructed from Fleming's ...

  3. Jamaica Estates, Queens - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Estates, Queens. Coordinates: 40.719°N 73.774°W. Jamaica Estates Memorial on a spring morning. Jamaica Estates is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Jamaica Estates is part of Queens Community District 8 [1] and located in the northern portion of Jamaica. It is bounded by Union Turnpike to the north, Hillside ...

  4. Golden Clouds - Wikipedia

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    Golden Clouds was the name given by Ruth Bryan Owen, the first female US ambassador, to her house in Oracabessa, Jamaica. [2][3] It is situated between Goldeneye, where Ian Fleming wrote many of the James Bond novels, and Noël Coward 's Firefly Estate. The ocean front 12-bedroom estate is on 7 acres (2.8 ha) of manicured lawn and gardens with ...

  5. Port Royal - Wikipedia

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    Port Royal. Port Royal is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. [1]

  6. List of plantation great houses in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.

  7. Rose Hall, Montego Bay - Wikipedia

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    Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum. It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored. The museum showcases the slave history of the ...

  8. Ocho Rios - Wikipedia

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    Ocho Rios Chapel, Jamaica (1850) [1] Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica, and is more widely referred to as Ochi by locals. Beginning as a sleepy fishing village, Ocho Rios has seen explosive growth in recent decades to become a popular tourist destination featuring duty-free ...

  9. Firefly Estate - Wikipedia

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    The Firefly Estate, located 10 km (6 mi) east of Oracabessa, Jamaica, was the Caribbean home of Sir Noël Coward and is the site of his grave. It is now listed as a National Heritage Site by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. [1] Although the setting is idylic, the house, built in 1956, [2] is surprisingly spartan, considering that he often ...

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