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Guano Islands

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What about the Guano Islands near Peru? In 1865, when it was the real height of it, Spain decided they would send a scientific mission to South America to kind of look at this. They sent a scientific mission of about a dozen warships, and basically then they forced a situation where some of their soldiers were attacked, and there was a full all-out war for bird shit.

from 402: No Such Thing As A Pig Playing Fortnite, 2021-12-03 at 00:09:27 · read transcript

Other times Guano Islands came up

  1. I've been there, actually. Have you? Have you? I've been to those Guano Islands, yeah. I tricked my wife into going there because there was an excursion to swim with sea lions, and I noticed it was on the guano islands. I was like, oh, you've always wanted to swim with sea lions, haven't you? She hadn't. Have I? We went down there, and I kept asking the guy who was in charge about the guano.

    No Such Thing As A Pig Playing Fortnite, 2021-12-03 · listen

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Coordinates: 25.5699, -77.7232

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