GIBRALTAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000700230001-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: MAP

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Harbour
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CALETA PALACE
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LIGHTHOUSE
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Pillars of Hercules, ancient name for mountains
flanking the Strait of Gibraltar, watch 30,0(x1 mer-
chant ships a year pass through. Telescopic lens com-
presses the distance between Gibraltar's rooftops and
2,782-foot Jebel Musa in Morocco, IS miles away.
Ships of the Royal Navy, illuminated by their own
lights at dusk, blaze at berths in sight of Spain. For
views of two continents, visitor mmay'ride aerial cable
cars to the top of the Rock, off limits until this year.
Staunchly British, the 19,000 Gibraltarians claim
Portuguese, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, and Jewi'.h
ancestry. Some 6,000 resident aliens from even cor-
ner of the world add to the cosmopolitan flavor. With
the military garrison, they jam the Croon Colony's
2Y4 square miilesj
Regarded as impregnable. the Rock fell to a Brit;
ceded thr fortress to Britain "to be held and enjoyel
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Caves riddling1he Rock have yielded
elephant and rhinoceros fossils, The city
crowds beside its mole-e'nclosed harbnr.
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