Cinque Islands

Cinque Islands (50˚18'00" 125˚24'00" Off SW side of Sonora I, N end of Discovery Passage, N of Campbell R). Named after the Cinque Ports, a string of seaport towns on the Kent and Sussex coasts in SE England, which were granted special privileges about 1150–1550 in return for providing coastal defence services. The original Cinque ports were Dover, Sandwich, Hastings, New Romney and Hythe, though other, smaller places became associated with them in a confederation that eventually included...

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