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Valletta, Malta. Only after processing and posting this photo, I noticed the graffiti appears to include an offensive word. Apologies. Not my choice of vocabulary, I assure you.
8-17-16 MS Rotterdam traveling through Davis Strait in Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland. Heading towards Nanortalik Greenland
Mount Stokes (1,203m) and peaks of the Marlborough Sounds rising above a cloudy Cook Strait - a channel of water separating New Zealand's North and South Islands.
I’ve been quiet here lately. I kind of lost interest in photography, but I think I'm slowly picking it up again.
Wellington, New Zealand
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey, and is the most populous city in Europe and the world's fifteenth-largest city.
The city was founded as Byzantium in the 7th century BCE by Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome and then finally as Constantinople (Constantinopolis) after himself. In 1930, the city's name was officially changed to Istanbul, the Turkish rendering of εἰς τὴν Πόλιν eis tḕn Pólin 'to the City', the appellation Greek speakers used since the 11th century to colloquially refer to the city.
The city served as an imperial capital for almost 1600 years: during the Byzantine (330–1204), Latin (1204–1261), late Byzantine (1261–1453), and Ottoman (1453–1922) empires. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becoming a beacon of the Silk Road and one of the most important cities in history. The city played a key role in the advancement of Christianity during Roman/Byzantine times, hosting four of the first seven ecumenical councils before its transformation to an Islamic stronghold following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 CE—especially after becoming the seat of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1517. In 1923, after the Turkish War of Independence, Ankara replaced the city as the capital of the newly formed Republic of Turkey.
Istanbul was the 2010 European Capital of Culture. The city has surpassed London and Dubai to become the most visited city in the world, with more than 20 million foreign visitors in 2023. The historic centre of Istanbul is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city hosts the headquarters of numerous Turkish companies, accounting for more than thirty percent of the country's economy.
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Looking down The Strait in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. 2014
The Bay of Gibraltar, is a bay at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It is around 10 km long by 8 km wide, covering an area of some 75 km2, with a depth of up to 400 m in the centre of the bay. It opens to the south into the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.
The shoreline is densely settled. From west to east, the shore is divided between the Spanish municipalities of Algeciras, Los Barrios, San Roque, La Línea de la Concepción and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The larger part of the shoreline is Spanish territory, with part of the eastern half of the bay belonging to Gibraltar.
The east and west entrances to the bay are marked respectively by the Europa Point Lighthouse at Europa Point, Gibraltar and the Punta Carnero Lighthouse in Punta Carnero to the west of Algeciras.
National Highway 2, between La Paz and Copacabana has no bridge over this little stretch of Lake Titicaca. You could take another road around the lake, but you'd need to cross into, and back out of Peru.
Bus passengers disembark and go across on a ferry.
The Menai Strait is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 25 km long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales. It varies in width from 400 metres from Fort Belan to Abermenai Point to 1,100 metres from Traeth Gwyllt to Caernarfon Castle.
Myeongyang Strait (South Korea) '25
Fought October 26, 1597. Yi Sun-sin with 13 ships defeated a Japanese fleet of roughly 300 (that is not a typo). Key to the victory was his knowledge of tides, which he used to trap the Japanese forces in a narrow area.