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  2. I took a 25-hour ferry from Europe to Africa along the ... - AOL

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    Europe and North Africa are only about 500 miles apart, so in May, I found a 25-hour ferry that went from Italy to Tunisia. I figured I'd be able to really take in all the views from the water.

  3. Cairo–Cape Town Highway - Wikipedia

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    The route has a length of 10,228 km (6,355 mi) and links Cairo in Egypt to Cape Town in South Africa. The British Empire had long proposed a road through the Cape to Cairo Red Line of British colonies. The road was variously known as the Cape to Cairo Road, Pan-African Highway, or, in sub-Saharan Africa, the Great North Road.

  4. Transatlantic crossing - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the 19th century, transatlantic crossings were undertaken in sailing ships, and the journeys were time-consuming and often perilous.The first trade route across the Atlantic was inaugurated by Spain a few decades after the European Discovery of the Americas, with the establishment of the West Indies fleets in 1566, a convoy system that regularly linked its territories in the Americas ...

  5. Eurafrica - Wikipedia

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    The term had already been coined by the time of the high imperial period of the nineteenth century. It played a role in some technocratical fantasies, such as the Atlantropa vision in the 1920s and the 1930s [4] (compare the recently failed Desertec project). [5] It then aimed to integrate African colonies providing raw materials with Europe. [6]

  6. High-speed rail tunnel to link Europe to Africa gets EU ...

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  7. Trans-African Highway network - Wikipedia

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    Trans-African Highway 1 , Cairo–Dakar Highway, 8,636 km (5,366 mi): a mainly coastal route along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, continuing down the Atlantic coast of North-West Africa; substantially complete, although the border between Algeria and Morocco is closed. TAH 1 joins with TAH 7 to form an additional north–south route ...

  8. An underwater tunnel could connect Europe to Africa by 2030 ...

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    A new 17-mile underwater tunnel could link Europe’s high-speed rail network to North Africa by 2030 – if a €6bn proposal goes ahead.. The tunnel would introduce a high-speed train service by ...

  9. Time in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Names for the offsets vary by country and jurisdiction: [3] in Africa, UTC+01:00 is commonly known as "West Africa Time", however Algeria, [14] Morocco and Tunisia [15] designate the offset by its European name, "Central European Time"; UTC+02:00 – commonly known as "Central Africa Time" – is designated as "South African Standard Time" by ...