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The answer to our Geo Quiz today MAY be the site of a historic shipwreck. It’s a treacherous stretch of the Atlantic Ocean called Long Shoal (one of the Nantucket Shoals) located between Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. Underwater explorer Barry Clifford tells anchor Marco Werman about the early China trading vessel called the Semiramis that sank in 1804

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