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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 ...
The return from the Otranto battle—15 May 1917—brought the British cruiser HMS Dartmouth within the range of the UC-25 which had already laid mines off Brindisi. At 13:30, UC-25 torpedoed Dartmouth approximately 36 mi (31 nmi ; 58 km ) off Brindisi, for some time the ship was considered to be lost, but was manned by a rescue crew later and ...
Category: Straits of South America by country. 6 languages. ... Straits of Venezuela (2 P) This page was last edited on 3 October 2024, at 09:02 (UTC). ...
Map of the Dispute of Eastern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magellan between Argentina and Chile (1842–1881). The East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute [1] or the Patagonia Question was the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile [2] during the 19th century [3] [4] for the possession of the southernmost territories of South America [5] on the ...
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.
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 most common demarcation in atlases and other sources follows the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [2]