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	ninemsn Encarta - Red Sea
		Bab el Mandeb strait connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, an arm of the Arabian Sea.
		Navigation is made difficult along the Red Sea by the coral reefs, strong winds, irregular currents, and the narrow channel at the strait of Bab el Mandeb, which must be kept open by blasting and dredging.
		It extends north-west from the strait of Bab el Mandeb to Suez, Egypt, for a distance of about 2,253 km (1,400 mi).
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575387/Red_Sea.html (368 words)

	BAB-EL-MANDEB - LoveToKnow Article on BAB-EL-MANDEB
		The island of Perim (q.v.), a British possession, divides the strait into two channels, of which the eastern, known as the Bab Iskender (Alexander's Strait), is 2 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAB_EL_MANDEB.htm (161 words)

	Bab-el-Mandeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island of Perim, divides the strait into two channels, of which the eastern, known as the Bab Iskender (Alexander's Strait), is 2 miles (3 km) wide and 16 fathoms (30 m) deep, while the western, or Dact-el-Mayun, has a width of about 16 miles (25 km) and a depth of 170 fathoms (310 m).
		Near the African coast lies a group of smaller islands known as the "Seven Brothers." There is a surface current inwards in the eastern channel, but a strong under-current outwards in the western channel.
		The distance across is about 20 miles (30 km) from Ras Menheli on the Arabian coast to Ras Siyan on the African.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb (223 words)

	Bab el Mandeb
		Bab el Mandeb [Arab.,= gate of tears], strait, 17 mi (27 km) wide, linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and separating the Arabian peninsula from E Africa.
		Djibouti, country, Africa: Land and People - Land and People Strategically situated, Djibouti commands Bab el Mandeb, the strait between the...
		Tihamah - Tihamah, Tihama,or Tehama, narrow, extremely arid lowland region along the west coast of the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0805612.html (177 words)

	RED SEA - LoveToKnow Article on RED SEA
		wide in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb; the eastern channel of the strait is 2 m.
		The mean annual temperature of the surface waters near the head is 77 F.; it rises to 80 in about 22 N., to 84 in 16 N., and drops again to 82 at the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb.
		, a narrow strip of water extending S.S.E. from Suez to the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb in a nearly straight line, and separating the coasts of Arabia from those of Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RE/RED_SEA.htm (1350 words)

	firstFoot_Footers.htm
		The Abban or protector of the Somali country is the Mogasa of the Gallas, the Akh of El Hejaz, the Ghafir of the Sinaitic Peninsula, and the Rabia of Eastern Arabia.
		El Makrizi, describing the kingdom of Zayla, uses the Harari not the Arabic term; he remarks that it is unknown to Egypt and Syria, and compares its leaf to that of the orange.
		Diwan el Jabr, for instance, is a civil court, opposed to the Mahkamah or the Kazi's tribunal.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/East/firstFoot_Footers.htm (19327 words)

	MSN Encarta - Bab el Mandeb
		Bab el Mandeb (Arabic Bab al-Mandab,”gate of tears”), strait between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden....
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570671/Bab_el_Mandeb.html (78 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bab El-Oued City
		Āseb, city and port in southern Eritrea, on the Red Sea coast near the strait of Bab el Mandeb.
		Bab El-Oued City, motion picture about political turbulence in Bab El-Oued, a working-class neighborhood of Algiers, Algeria.
		Search for books about your topic, "Bab El-Oued City"
	encarta.msn.com /Bab_El-Oued_City.html (150 words)

	Yemen and the Bab el Mandeb straits according to the ‘Periplus of the Red Sea’
		Yemen and the Bab el Mandeb straits according to the ‘Periplus of the Red Sea’
		The ‘Periplus of the Red Sea’, an Ancient Greek text written by an Alexandrian Egyptian of the times of the Roman Emperor Nero, refers to the Yemenite coast around the Bab el Mandeb straits at the southernmost end of the Red Sea.
		The current realities at the strategic area of the Bab al Mandeb straits at the southern end of the Red Sea can be better assessed through the study of the 20-century old text 'Periplus of the Red Sea'.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/8-6-2005-74342.asp (695 words)

	Republic of Yemen
		The Bab el Mandeb has influenced many political relations concerning oil and other natural resources, and is an area that must be controlled to ensure stability.
		In addition, the Bab el Mandeb is on the southwestern coast of Yemen.
		The Bab el Mandeb is off the coast of Yemen and is an extremely important area that connnects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden
	www.humboldt.edu /~go1/hist334/yemen.html (1965 words)

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		Except for the TSS in the Bab el Mandeb, the Gulf of Suez and in the Tiran Strait, it is estimated that the lane breadth throughout the area is 4n.miles, and that ships are uniformly distributed over the lane breadth.
		Bab el Mandeb to Huneish Islands) and the northern parts of the Red Sea (including Gulf of Suez and Tiran Strait, not Gulf of Aqaba) should be re-surveyed.
		The third hot spot is the region from oil terminal of Ras Issa north of the Bab el Mandeb Strait in south (Hot-Spot D in Appendix I).
	wbln0018.worldbank.org /essd/redseaworkspace.nsf/fa3f18e8d62e4a62852567930061117d/9aef9aca5b4c1620852567d0005a5991 (13481 words)

	14. Oblique View, Bab el-Mandeb, Ethiopia/Djibouti/Yemen
		The Bab el-Mandeb is actually divided by the island of Perim into two waterways, the larger of which is 16 kilometers wide and 322 meters deep.
		Connecting these two bodies of water is a narrow waterway known as the Bab el-Mandeb (“Gate of Lamentation”).
		The importance of this waterway and nearby port cities grew with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, which linked the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /publications/slidesets/humanimprints/slide_14.html (291 words)

	Eritrea -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Its 600 miles (1,000 kilometres) of coastline extend from Cape Kasar, in the north, to the Strait of Mandeb, separating the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden in the south.
		A small country in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti faces the Strait of Mandeb that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
		Eritrea is bounded on the northwest by The Sudan, on the southeast by Djibouti, and on the south by Ethiopia, from which it separated in 1993.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032916 (778 words)

	Horn of Africa Regional Country Analysis Brief
		Bab el-Mandeb is a narrow waterway situated between Eritrea, Djibouti and Yemen that connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.
		The Bab el-Mandeb could be bypassed (for northbound oil traffic) by utilizing the East-West oil pipeline, which traverses Saudi Arabia and has a capacity of about 4.8 million bbl/d.
		In addition, closure of the Bab el-Mandeb would effectively block non-oil shipping from using the Suez Canal, except for limited trade within the Red Sea region.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/hornafrica.html (4694 words)

	Yemen - Middle East: sea south, discovery oil, civil war, sanaa yemen, red sea
		It is bounded on the west by the Red Sea and on the south by the Gulf of Aden (an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of the Indian Ocean), and is separated from Africa by the narrow strait of Bab el Mandeb.
		Yemen includes several sizable islands, most notably Socotra in the Indian Ocean, Perim in the Bab el Mandeb, and Kamaran in the Red Sea.
	www.countriesquest.com /middle_east/yemen.htm (310 words)

	M-ME-C202--RED SEA
		STRAITS OF BAB EL MANDEB TO ADEN HARBOUR
		INDIAN OCEAN GULF OF ADEN STRAITS OF BAB EL MANDEB TO CAPE KALWEYN
		EL 'AQABA TO DUBA AND PORTS ON THE COAST OF SAUDI ARABIA
	www.waypoints.com /cmap/M-ME-C202.htm (151 words)

	::Academy Travel Agency: Diving and Live-a-Board in Egypt
		Surrounded by vast deserts, the Red Sea expands 2000 km (1300 miles) from the north, the Gulf of Aqaba to Bab el Mandeb in the south.
	www.academytravel.net /diving01.htm (195 words)

	Noonsite: Bab El Mandeb Straits To Eritrea: Cruising Report 2005
		The following is an antidote to Bab el Mandeb horror stories.
		Bab El Mandeb Straits To Eritrea: Cruising Report 2005
		The winds do not arrive suddenly, but build up, and the separate experience of two boats is that they peak near the Djibouti/Eritrea border at Dumera I. We transited at dawn, which is probably the best time for least wind.
	www.noonsite.com /Members/doina/R2005-02-25-1 (759 words)

	The Daily Star - Business Articles - Tanker terror: Gulf's oil routes under threat
		The maritime chokepoints in the Middle East - the Suez Canal and the Bab el-Mandeb Straits at either end of the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz (the only way in and out of the Gulf), and the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in Turkey - are also high-risk zones.
		Chokepoints such as the Straits of Malacca, the Suez Canal and the Bab el-Mandeb Straits are high-risk zones for terrorist strikes
		The suicide bombing of the French supertanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden by Al-Qaeda on Oct. 6, 2002 as it headed for Asia with a cargo of 400,000 barrels of Saudi crude was a wake-up call.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=2597 (1396 words)

	Global Village Two
		Horn of Africa; Bab el Mandeb; Socotra Islands
	www.geog.tamu.edu /~prout/GVmidtermTwo.html (154 words)

	Comic creator: Attilio Micheluzzi
		He continued with series and stories like 'Rosso Stenton', 'Air Mail', 'Bab El Mandeb', 'Roy Mann' and 'Dylan Dog', published all through the 1980s.
	www.lambiek.net /micheluzzi.htm (224 words)

	Port: Red Sea
		An inflow of less-saline water through Bab el Mandeb in the south is driven northward by prevailing winds.
		At Bab el Mandeb the channel is kept open by blasting and dredging.
		The Red Sea extends from Suez, Egypt, southward for about 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) to the strait of Bab el Mandeb, which connects it with the Gulf of Aden and then with the Indian Ocean.
	www.icruise.com /cruise_content/port_Red_Sea.htm (721 words)

	Eritrea Issues New Map Claiming Part of Djibouti
		Note that this map shows the Bab el Mandeb strait as lying within Djibouti not Eritrea.
		extending to the Bab el Mandeb strait directly opposite Perim island.
		Conclusion: Eritrea needs to stop this fiction that it has one of the most well-known of colonial borders, while simultaneously issuing a new map that incorporates territory from at least three of its neighbors.
	www.geocities.com /~dagmawi/News_July4_Maps.html (553 words)

	Bab el Mandeb. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/BabelMan.html (119 words)

	EWR: Chokepoints for World Trade
		The Bab el Mandeb Strait - This strait is less than 20 miles wide, connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
		All the Nations along the Red Sea are Islamic, and the rulers of Sudan are backed by Iran.
		Only eight miles wide, the Gibraltar strait could be closed by missles, guns or mines.
	www.webcom.com /beacon/mapchokepoints.html (642 words)

	Garmin: Cartography - BlueChart - Card: Region AW002 - Red Sea, FEB 03
		STRAITS OF BAB EL MANDEB TO ADEN HARBOUR.
		MEDITERRANEAN SEA.EGYPT.APPROACHES TO MERSA EL HAMRA AND SIDI KERIR.
		RED SEA-EGYPT.GULF OF SUEZ.APPROACHES TO PORT OF SUEZ (BUR EL SUWEIS).
	www.garmin.com /cartography/bluechart/card.jsp?sku=ATL-AW002-2&cd=Pacific (201 words)

	Middle East Newsline - Area News - Updated Daily
		The government was responding to a reports in the Al Wahdawi daily that Yemen intends to allow construction of a U.S. military base in Bab El-Mandeb.
		The pledge came amid reports that Sanaa and Washington had been negotiating for the establishment of a U.S. military base in Bab El-Mandeb.
		But officials in Sanaa said Yemen will not allow the deployment of foreign military bases in its country.
	www.menewsline.com /stories/2001/june/06_10_6.html (154 words)

	IUGG 2003 Scientific Program
		Theexchange pattern in the Bab el Mandeb is essentially a vertically layered,two-dimensional pattern which varies from a classical 2-layer inverseestuarine exchange in the boreal winter to a 3-layered exchange in borealsummer.
		Theexchanges of these marginal seas with the Indian Ocean have beenexplored in some detail in recent years through moored time-seriesmeasurement programs in the connecting straits: the Bab el Mandeb at theentrance to the Red Sea, and the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to theGulf.
		The outflows from the Red Sea and the Arabian (Persian) Gulf representimportant sources of salt and buoyancy flux to the northern Indian Ocean andstrongly influence its thermohaline structure and stratification.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts03/P02/06/019381-2.html (394 words)

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