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C. Dutch St Maarten encompasses the southern half of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, while the northern half of the island is French territory. Laura chose the island for her arrival because she feared social workers would place her in custody if she returned directly to the Netherlands.
C. Kiwi are flightless birds native to New Zealand and a national symbol. Laura said she would rather go to New Zealand than to return to the Netherlands, where authorities once asked a judge to place her in a secure clinic because of her plan to sail around the world.
B. Abby had sailed south in the Pacific from Marina Del Rey, California, and around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. She sailed east across the Atlantic to Cape Town, rounded Cape Agulhas at the tip of Africa and sailed east into the Indian Ocean.
D. An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. The Isthmus of Panama links North and South America and separates currents of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.