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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 Aborigina ...
, Queensland, Australia * Curacoa volcano, 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, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...
", especially in reference to liquor


See also

* Curaçao (disambiguation) *
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. ...
* Kurakawa {{disambig