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Strait of Gibraltar

Gibraltar is the Mediterranean's Atlantic door, 13 km wide — held by Britain since 1704 because whoever holds it can close a sea. NATO's cork on Russian and any other fleet movements between ocean and Mediterranean.

35.8°N · 5.9°W

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