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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military [1]) is a United States military base occupying a location on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the ...
Guantanamo Bay from satellite. Guantánamo Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Guantánamo, [baˈia ðe ɣwãnˈtanamo]) is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba.It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off from its immediate hinterland.
The naval base at Guantanamo Bay was leased by Cuba to the American government through the "Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations", signed by the President of Cuba and the President of the United States on 23 February 1903. The lease agreement from 1903 says in Article 2:
The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) is a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay detention camp within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The GMOC is a distinct facility from the detention blocks used to hold terrorism suspects and " illegal enemy combatants ".
Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the title of a 2004 book by Victoria Brittain (a former Guardian foreign editor) and novelist Gillian Slovo (ISBN 1-84002-474-7). Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the title of a 2004 play, based upon interviews with the families of men detained in Guantanamo Bay, by the same authors.
List of commanders of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base; 0–9. 1994 Cuban rafter crisis; A. American International Airways Flight 808; B. Scott Bullock; C. Camp Bulkeley;
4 December 1940 – President Roosevelt visited Guantánamo Bay in USS Tuscaloosa. 12 July 1940 – Contract signed with Frederick Snare Corporation to begin a vast construction program for build-up of the Station. 1 April 1941 – Naval Operating Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, established. 25 February 1948 – President Harry S. Truman visited Base.
Guantanamo Bay — a natural bay on the coast of Guantánamo Province, ... This category has only the following subcategory. G. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (2 C, 18 P)