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...In all, the coast is around 1,100 miles (1,700km) long, running from the Panamá isthmus to Punta Gallinas, the northernmost tip of South America....
...Before the Cavendish became the dominant variety, the Gros Michel banana was the most widely eaten banana. However, this was wiped out in the 1950s by the first strain of Panama disease....
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...Companies in Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Delaware, Malta, Panama, Seychelles and the Cook Islands were up for grabs for a few hundred pounds....
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