"Strait of gibraltar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean). The Kiel Canal (Germany), Oresund (Denmark-Sweden), Bosporus (Turkey), Strait of Gibraltar (Morocco-Spain), and the St. Lawrence Seaway (Canada-US) are important strategic access waterways. The decision by the International Hydrographic Organization in the spring of 2000 to delimit a fifth world ocean, the Southern Ocean, removed the portion of the Atlantic Ocean ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... for example, the great overland route from Europe to Asia. Despite its name, its real highway is on the waters of the Mediterranean and Red Seas. It has three gates,—three alone. They are the narrow strait of Gibraltar, fifteen miles wide, that place where the Mediterranean narrows between Sicily and Africa to less than a hundred miles wide, and the strait of Bab-el-mandeb, seventeen miles wide. England holds the keys to every one of these gates. Count them,—Gibraltar, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... note: Azores and Madeira Islands occupy strategic locations along western sea approaches to Strait of Gibraltar ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... Strait of Gibraltar, which links the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southern ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... middle of May we swung out again into the breakers of old ocean, and held our course to the wonderful "Strait of Gibraltar," separating Europe from Africa, whose inland, classic shores are bathed by the emerald waters ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce |
