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Gibraltar Street intersection. Gibraltar is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 4,656 at the 2010 census. [4]Gibraltar is a southern city of Metro Detroit and is about 12 miles (19.3 km) south of the city of Detroit.
The Strait of Gibraltar [1] is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa. The two continents are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.2 kilometers, 8.9 miles) at its narrowest point. [ 2 ]
Annotated satellite view of the Strait of Gibraltar. The history of Gibraltar has been driven by its strategic position near the entrance of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a narrow peninsula at the eastern side of the Bay of Gibraltar, 6 kilometres (4 mi) from the city of Algeciras.
In the late thirteen and early fourteenth centuries, Castile, the Marinids of Morocco and the Nasrids of Granada fought for the control of the Strait of Gibraltar.This "battle" (Spanish: la Cuestión del Estrecho) is a major chapter in the history of the Christian reconquest of Spain.
The Straits of Mackinac, spanned by the Mackinac Bridge, seen from the southern shore. The straits are shallow and narrow enough to freeze over in the winter. Navigation is ensured for year-round shipping to the Lower Great Lakes by the use of icebreakers. The straits were an important Native American and fur trade route.
The German Abwehr and the Italian Servizio Informazioni Militare (Military Intelligence Service [1925–1944]) established a network of ship-watching positions along the Strait of Gibraltar in Spain and Spanish Morocco during the early years of the Second World War.
The Strait of Gibraltar crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel spanning the Strait of Gibraltar (about 14 km or 9 miles at its narrowest point) that would connect Europe and Africa. The governments of Spain and Morocco appointed a joint committee [ 1 ] to investigate the feasibility of linking the two continents in 1979, which resulted in ...
It is located approximately 25 km west of the narrowest section of the Strait of Gibraltar and 20 km east of the Espartel Sill, at , at a depth [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its formation is linked to the Zanclean flood and the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis , when the Mediterranean was abruptly refilled through the Strait of Gibraltar, excavating ...