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  1. Gulf of Mexico port on Galveston Island in
  2. Texas, USA; population (1980) 61,902. It
  3. exports cotton, petroleum, wheat, and timber
  4. and has chemical works and petroleum
  5. refineries. In 1900, 8,000 people died in one
  6. of the hurricanes that periodically hit the
  7. region.
  8.