Piracy in the Caribbean in the New World were violated with greater frequency by the merchants of other nations. The Spanish port on the island of Trinidad off the northern coast of South America, permanently settled only in 1592, became a major point of contact between all the nations with a presence in the Caribbean. In the early 17th century, expensive fortifications and the size of the colonial garrisons at the major Spanish ports increased to deal with the enlarged presence of Spain's competitors in the Caribbean, but the treasure fleet's silver shipments and the number of Spanish-owned merchant ships operating in the region
Yarok Island the Yana delta area on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences located in St. Petersburg. Yarok Island Yarok Island () is an island in the Laptev Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. The island is located off the mouths of the Yana river, only a few kilometres towards the east. Administratively, Yarok Island is part of the Sakha Republic of Russia. Yarok Island is large and flat. It has many small lakes, swamps and sandbars. Its length is and its maximum breadth is . The Yana delta, the coastal area off which Yarok Island lies, is