Bab-el-Mandeb
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The Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait and a major global chokepoint between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the In
The strait of Bab-el-Mandeb seen as seen from the orbiting Gemini 11 above East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
The Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, with Perim Island in the distance
Perim
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Perim, also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a Yemeni volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, off the south-west coast of Yemen. It administratively belongs to Dhuba
Bab-el-Mandeb
…silsilat al-Mandab in connection with the conflict between Dhu Nuwas and the Aksumites. The British East India Company unilaterally seized the island of Perim in 1799 on behalf of its Indian empire. The government of Britain asserted its ownership in 1857 and erected a lighthouse there in 1861, using it to…
Perim and Shaikh Said Peninsula
Satellite picture showing Perim and the Cheikh Saïd Peninsula
The Ottoman fleet protecting shipping in the Gulf of Aden
Perim and Aden, coloured red as British possessions in 1899