Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
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Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, also known as Hajar Badis, is a Spanish tied island, exclave and former rocky tidal island in the western Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Moroccan shore by a san
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, seen from the Moroccan coast in 2007.
1692 engraving of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, by Lucas Vostermans of Antwerp
Morocco–Spain border
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The border between Morocco and Spain consists of three non-contiguous lines totalling 18.5 km around the Spanish territories of Ceuta, Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera and Melilla. Spanish islets such as t
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
…of sand into the short channel between the island and the African continent. The channel was turned into a tombolo and the island became a peninsula, connected to the Moroccan coast by an 85 m (279 ft) long sandy isthmus, which is the world's shortest single land-border segment. With a length of 400 m (1,300 ft) northwest-southeast…
Spanish-Moroccan border in 2004
The Ceuta border fence as it enters the sea
The Ceuta border fence
The Farjana–Melilla border crossing