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In 1997 and 2004, nearly 100 people died trying to illegally cross the strait following the 1997 unrest in Albania and poor economic conditions in the Tragedy of Otranto and the Karaburun tragedy. In 2006, the Albanian government imposed a moratorium on motor-powered sailing boats on all lakes, rivers, and seas of Albania to curb organized ...
Bering Strait: Asia and North America Boca Chica Pass: Former strait between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Bay of the Laguna Madre: Bohai Strait: Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea: Bohol Strait: Cebu Strait Strait of Bonifacio: Corsica and Sardinia: Bosporus: Europe and Asia Bougainville Strait (Indonesia) Waigeo and the Kawe Islands [1] Bougainville ...
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The Vlora-Otranto Tunnel is a proposed undersea tunnel that aims to connect Vlorë, in Albania, with Otranto, in Italy, across the Strait of Otranto a narrow strip of water that separates the Adriatic Sea from the Ionian Sea and is about 71 kilometers (44 miles) wide at its narrowest point.
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The Strait of Otranto, to which the city gives its name, connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. The harbour is small and has little trade. [7] The lighthouse Faro della Palascìa, at approximately 5 kilometres (3 miles) southeast of Otranto, marks the most easterly point of the Italian mainland.
The drifters could cover approximately 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km; 0.6 mi) apiece of the Strait of Otranto, which is 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) wide, and the barrage covered only slightly more than half of the strait. The raid had risked some of the most modern ships of the Austro-Hungarian fleet on an operation that offered minimal ...
The damaged Austro-Hungarian cruiser Novara after the battle of the Otranto Straits, 15 May 1917 The Austrians mounted nighttime raids against the barrage, five in 1915, nine in 1916 and ten in 1917. After a raid by four Huszár -class destroyers in December 1916, a conference in London concluded that the drifters were insufficiently defended.