Curacoa may refer to:
Geography
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Curacoa Island
Curacoa Island (pron. KEWR-ə-sow) is one of the islands in the Palm Islands group off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named. Curacoa Island is uninhabited.
The Aboriginal ...
, Queensland, Australia
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Curacoa volcano
Curacoa is a submarine volcano located south of the Curacoa Reef in northern Tonga. The reef is 24fm North of Tafahi in the Niua Islands. Eruptions were observed in 1973 and 1979 from two separate vents. The 1973 eruption produced a large raft of ...
, Tonga
Naval vessels
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Curacoa'':
* , a 36-gun fifth-rate ship launched in 1809. She was reduced to 24 guns in 1831 and broken up in 1849
* , a wood-screw frigate launched in 1854, she was flagship of the Australia Station during the New Zealand Land Wars and was broken up in 1869
* , a screw corvette launched in 1878 and sold in 1904
* , a C-class light cruiser launched in 1917 and accidentally sunk by RMS ''Queen Mary'' in 1942
Other
* "Curacoa", archaic form of the word "
curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
", especially in reference to liquor
See also
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Curaçao (disambiguation)
Curaçao is an island in the Caribbean Sea which is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Curaçao may also refer to:
* Curaçao and Dependencies/Territory Curaçao, the name of the Dutch possession comprising Aruba, Bonaire, ...
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Curassow
Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds. They comprise the largest-bodied species of the cracid family. Three of the four genera are restricted to tropical South America; a single species of ''Crax'' ranges north to Mexico. ...
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Kurakawa
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