Region
Pacific
1 pirate in the codex documented as operating here.
The Pacific Ocean was a secondary pirate theatre during the Golden Age, principally the operational ground of the buccaneer cross-Isthmian raids of the 1670s and 1680s under captains such as Henry Morgan’s successors Bartholomew Sharp, John Coxon, and Edward Davis, who crossed the Isthmus of Panama on foot, captured Spanish vessels on the Pacific side, and raided the South American Pacific coast. Drake’s 1577–1580 circumnavigation also operated principally on the Pacific coast during its outbound leg. Pacific piracy effectively ceased by 1690 as Spanish defences along the coast improved and the principal buccaneer pool dispersed into the Caribbean and Atlantic.
