Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Cocos Island National Park' has mentioned 'Treasure' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| It is said[citation needed] that over 300 expeditions have searched for buried treasure there, such as the hoard of Benito Bonito, the Treasure of Lima, and many others. | WIKI |
| Treasure hunting is strictly prohibited by the Costa Rican government and permits are not being issued. | WIKI |
| In 1897, the Costa Rican government named the German adventurer and treasure hunter August Gissler the first Governor of Cocos Island and allowed him to establish a short-lived colony there. | WIKI |
| The first claims of treasure buried on the island came from a woman named Mary Welch, who claimed that 350 tons of gold (about $16 billion in today's money) raided from Spanish galleons had been buried on the island by Captain Bennett Graham, a naval officer who had become a pirate in 1818. | WIKI |
| She possessed a chart showing where Graham's treasure was supposed to be hidden. | WIKI |
| [46][47] Though Bonito was hunted down and executed, his treasure was never retrieved. | WIKI |
| Perhaps the best-known of the treasure legends tied to the island is that of the fabled Treasure of Lima. | WIKI |
| [48] In 1820, with the army of Josxc3xa9 de San Martxc3xadn approaching Lima, Viceroy Josxc3xa9 de la Serna is supposed to have entrusted treasure from the city to British trader Captain William Thompson for safekeeping until the Spaniards could secure the country. | WIKI |
| Instead of waiting in the harbor as they were instructed,[49] Thompson and his crew killed the viceroy's men and sailed to Cocos, where they allegedly buried the treasure. | WIKI |
| The two said they would show the Spaniards where they had hidden the treasure in return for their lives, but after landing on Cocos, they escaped into the forest and were never recaptured. | WIKI |
| Hundreds of attempts to find treasure on the island have failed. | WIKI |
| On one trip, Keating was said to have retrieved gold and jewels from the treasure. | WIKI |
| [51][52] German adventurer August Gissler lived on the island for most of the period from 1889 until 1908, hunting the treasure with the small success of finding a few gold coins. | WIKI |
| An art project called Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, where a container with artwork by different artists was buried in a secret location, took place on the island in 2014. | WIKI |
| The island itself, xe2x80x9cIsla del Cocoxe2x80x9d, also known as xe2x80x9cTreasure Islandxe2x80x9d, is the only landmark of the vast submarine Cocos Range. | UNESCO |