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East Caicos is one of the Caicos Islands, north of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea.
Apparently it has a coastline that resembles the coast of some other island somewhere in the Caribbean if you look at it upside down.
In fact, historically, maps have been oriented in all sorts of different ways. South at the top has been and still is common in certain contexts.
The T and O style maps common in Europe during the Medieval period typically had east placed at the top. The very word "orientation" comes from the Latin oriens, meaning "east" - the same root as the word "Orient" meaning "the east".
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