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	Gibraltar Island
		The island and it's peaceful surroundings, became a haven of retreat for the Cooke family and their acquaintences during the hard times of the Civil War.
		The island is situated in the waters of Lake Erie and is a part of Put-In-Bay.
		Gibraltar Island received it's name because the eastern edge of the island rises out of the water in a similar manner to the more famous rock of the Mediterranean.
	www.osu.edu /cookecastle/island01.html (215 words)

	Gibraltar Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gibraltar Island became a lookout point for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the fight against the British during the War of 1812.
		As a result, the lookout point on Gibraltar Island became known as Perry's Lookout.
		The island is also the home to the oldest biological research laboratory on the Great Lakes, the F. Stone Laboratory (known simply as Stone Lab).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gibraltar_Island (197 words)

	Gibraltar-The Rock
		Gibraltar is a part of our Polish history because of the famous and never solved mystery of an airplane crash with Polish Prime Minister onboard.
		Gibraltar is widely known as a duty free zone so many Spaniards and other tourists go there for cheaper whisky, brandy and vodka as well as for digital cameras and other electronic devices.
		It also details the development of Gibraltar as a military fortress and the sixteen sieges it has suffered in seven hundred years as well as the social, economic, and political growth of Gibraltar into a self-governing colony.
	www.geocities.com /zbigstar (982 words)

	History Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gibraltar is twenty-two miles south of the heart of the City of Detroit where the Detroit River flows into Lake Erie and adjoins the southern boundary of Trenton.
		This is not true, Gibraltar Island is one of the Bass Island Group in Lake Erie and a part of Ohio.
		Gibraltar became the second smallest city in the state with a population of 2,187.
	www.cityofgibraltar.org /community/history (8574 words)

	Lake Erie Coastal Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Instead, the laboratory is in honor of Franz Theodore Stone (1813-1862), father of the island's benefactor.
		He purchased the island in 1925, and presented it to the university as a location to conduct biological research.
		A family man, Cooke purchased Gibraltar Island in 1864 as a place for his family to retreat on vacation.
	www.coastalohio.com /site.asp?id=5 (571 words)

	Pacific Rim National Park Reserve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Broken Group Islands region is made up of over one hundred small islands and islets in Barkley Sound.
		The largest forested islands are Effingham, Turret, Turtle, Dodd, Jacques, Nettle and Gibraltar Island.
		The West Coast Trail is a 75 km trail along the west-coast of Vancouver Island from Port Renfrew to Bamfield.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Rim_National_Park_Reserve (335 words)

	City of Toronto: Toronto Island Park
		The Toronto Islands were not always islands but actually a series of continuously moving sand-bars, or littoral drift deposits, originating from the Scarborough Bluffs and carried westward by Lake Ontario currents.
		High lake levels continually damaged island properties and, on January 1, 1956, the City of Toronto transferred responsibility for the Toronto Islands to The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (Metro) to be developed as a regional park.
		After the islands were transferred from the federal government to the City of Toronto in 1867, Plan D-141 divided the land into lots and allowed cottages, amusement areas and resort hotels to be built.
	www.toronto.ca /parks/island (1318 words)

	Gibraltar, a spacious, private rental home on Staniel Cay, Exumas, Bahamas
		Located on the small island of Staniel Cay in the middle of the Exuma chain of islands 80 miles southeast of Nassau, Gibraltar treats guests to incredible island living.
		Although Gibraltar is air-conditioned throughout for when it is hot, the island breeze flows through this well-designed home during cooler months, with ceiling fans in every room.
		You'll soon notice that the walls inside Gibraltar are the same color as the water greeting the sand.
	www.mwpr.com /Gibraltar.html (319 words)

	Gibraltar Economy
		The currency is the Gibraltar pound (£G) = 100 pence and is at par with the British pound.
		Any corporation with a development aid license granted by the governor for a project that will benefit Gibraltar's economy is exempt from paying income tax on profit earned from the development until the total gains from the development exceed the percentage of approved capital expenditure.
		To qualify for a license, the project must provide at least two housing units in Gibraltar; create new industry; provide a material and immovable asset in Gibraltar; develop the tourist industry; provide new employment opportunities or tangibly enhance the economic or financial infrastructure of Gibraltar.
	www.lowtax.net /lowtax/html/gibraltar/jgiecon.html (807 words)

	Jay Cooke Collection at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		Stone donated the island to The Ohio State University to develop a biology research laboratory and fish hatchery known today as the Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory.
		The collection consists primarily of records and images focusing on the Gibraltar Island visits of the Cooke family from 1865 to 1925.
		The first four volumes of the Gibraltar Island Records are housed at The Ohio State University Archives in Columbus, Ohio.
	www.rbhayes.org /hayes/mssfind/487/cooke_jay.htm (1711 words)

	Erie Islands Service Plaza
		The Erie Islands are said to have been discovered in the early years of the seventeenth century by a wandering French missionary named Gabriel Segard while exploring this then unknown country, which was at that time inhabited by Huron Indians.
		The three Bass Islands, named for the fish found in their surrounding waters, and a number of reefs lie north of the Marblehead Peninsula and to the west of Kelleys Island.
		Pelee Island is by far the largest of all the Erie Islands and is a popular stopping place for Americans traveling on the steamer that plies between Sandusky and southern Ontario.
	www.ohioturnpike.org /sp_erie_islands.html (1319 words)

	- toledoblade.com -
		GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio - Venerable Cooke's Castle - a stunning architectural sight seen from a distance by thousands of Put-in-Bay tourists each summer - is ready to move into the final phases of a massive renovation project that began more than eight years ago.
		Gibraltar Island was donated to Ohio State by industrialist Julius Stone shortly after he had purchased it in 1925 from Mr.
		Cooke bought Gibraltar Island in 1864 for what would be a bargain in today's dollars, a mere $3,001.
	www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73180446217300&Avis=TO&Dato=20040809&Kategori=NEWS17&Lopenr=408090343&Ref=AR (557 words)

	Lake Erie Coastal Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		More than two dozen islands appear throughout the Western Basin, from tiny outcroppings that come and go with the fall and rise of water levels, to the largest of the bunch, Pelee Island in Canada.
		Similar in their isolation and climate, the islands are quite different from one another because of the geological forces that contributed to their shape and soil.
		Prickly ash, wafer ash, and hackberry trees are common on the island and host the caterpillar of the snout butterfly, which is rarely seen in the Cleveland area.
	www.coastalohio.com /eco.asp?id=2 (796 words)

	South Bass Island Lighthouse, Ohio at Lighthousefriends.com
		The islands would prove to be key military locations five years later when the War of 1812 broke out, especially during the Battle of Lake Erie, fought September 10, 1813.
		Riley's time on the island was cut short, however, and he left his post as lighthouse keeper just two years later because of problems with his mental health.
		The island received another technological addition in 1983 when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration determined that it was a good location for a meteorological station.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=276 (1030 words)

	CSC - International Services
		Gibraltar is located at the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean sea.
		The island of Gibraltar is sometimes known as "the rock".
		Gibraltar is a self-governing British Dependant Territory with the Head of State Queen Elizabeth II.
	www.incspot.com /public/c6-01i-gi.html (292 words)

	123 Property News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If planning permission is forthcoming, The Island, a development of 19 luxury townhouses, will be built within the harbour area of Gibraltar, on land to be reclaimed from the sea opposite Queensway Quay, Taylor Woodrow's complex of apartments, townhouses and villas.
		Gibraltar Government has recently announced a major initiative in residential development that will be of benefit to young and low-income prospective purchasers as well as elderly people and others in need of social housing in Gibraltar.
		Gibraltar Government's policy of wooing potential investors appears to be paying dividends, judging by the comments made to 123 Property News by people attending the various events held on Gibraltar Day.
	www.123propertynews.com /archive/18/latest/news.html (2956 words)

	Put-in-Bay History \| Put-in-Bay Information \| Put in Bay Travel Guide
		The Lake Erie Islands were included in the tract of land claimed by Connecticut and which is known as the Western Reserve.
		In 1845 Gibraltar Island in the harbor was occupied by a group of government surveyors and engineers who were engaged in making charts of the lake.
		Local island government was now desired and to this end, John Stone, Simon Fox and others from the three Bass Islands petitioned the Ottawa County commissioners for permission to organize Put-in-Bay township.
	www.putinbay.com /history.htm (1689 words)

	BBC - Guernsey - Sport - Island Tennis stars in Gibraltar
		The Gibraltar Island Tennis Tournament, which will also feature teams from Jersey, the Isle of Man, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Rhodes, Götland and Äland, is designed as an alternative event to the Island Games which will not be including tennis in its programme of chosen sports.
		Island tennis manager and captain, Rick Denton said, "We all recognised the importance of keeping the rivalry between the islands alive.
		"Gibraltar is very close to North Africa and will be a very hot place in June and July so playing conditions will favour the teams from Cayman, Bermuda and Rhodes but we are looking forward to it immensely," he continued.
	www.bbc.co.uk /guernsey/content/articles/2005/04/21/tennis_gibraltar_feature.shtml (268 words)

	Put-in-Bay (Putinbay) Chamber Archived News Stories
		The Gibraltar Tour is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and younger.
		The cost of the Gibraltar Tour by itself does not include the cost of the water taxi to and from the island.
		The Lake Erie Islands Historical Society's museum on Town Hall Lane is open from 10 a.m.
	www.put-in-bay.com /newsarchive/newsarchive05/05ecotour05-07.html (594 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Hunt for Lost City of Atlantis
		"There was an island situated in front of the Pillars of Hercules; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together," he said in his Timaeus dialogue.
		He explained that the island "was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent".
		Spartel Island is a mud shoal about 8 kilometres (five miles) by 3.5 km and lies at a maximum depth of 100 metres (320 feet).
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3227295.stm (958 words)

	boats.com - Destinations: Inside Put-in-Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He is supposed to have seen the island strewn with gorgeous flowers and to have named it Isle de Fleurs.
		Starve Island is little more than a thin spot of water and a couple dead trees, again thanks to the high water.
		During Prohibition, this island was reputed to have been a hot spot for "importing" Canadian whiskey into the United States.
	www.boats.com /content/default_detail.jsp?contentid=1793 (968 words)

	JewsGilbraltar2
		A.B.M. Serfaty in his most interesting work on the Jews of Gibraltar tells us that the ancestors of the Jews of Gibraltar were the Jews of Spain, the Sephardim who were expelled from that country by order of Isabella and Ferdinand.
		But the numerical decline has meant that the future for the Jews of Gibraltar is far from certain.This report from Sylvia Smith begins with Abraham Beniso, a cantor at one of the Rock's four Synagogues.
		Maseb Balilo: All sectors of the civilian community were second class citizens in colonial Gibraltar, where the military were the first class, and I think that is why perhaps to support each other, the different sectors of the community backed each other and put up a common front to reply to the inequalities.
	www.haruth.com /JewsGilbraltar2.html (1181 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Gibraltar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Strategically important, Gibraltar was ceded to Great Britain by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht; the British garrison was formally declared a colony in 1830.
		In referendums held in 1967 and 2002, Gibraltarians ignored Spanish pressure and voted overwhelmingly to remain a British dependency.
		In recent years, Gibraltar has seen major structural change from a public to a private sector economy, but changes in government spending still have a major impact on the level of employment.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/gi.html (815 words)

	Wildlife: Snake lady wrapped up in research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Based at Ohio State University's Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie, Stanford acquired the nickname shortly after beginning a research project on the endangered Lake Erie water snake.
		She understood that a key to the unpopular species' survival was convincing the islands' human population that if left alone, water snakes are harmless and even ecologically beneficial.
		Many driveways on the islands now sport signs provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Ohio DNR that read, "Water Snakes Welcome Here." I doubt there were any of those BK (before Kristin).
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05184/532307.stm (663 words)

	The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		The Rev. Henry Cooke wrote in the Gibraltar Record that he had "found the island literally invaded by the Butlers" on his return from a visit to Sandusky.
		In 1925, the Cooke family sold Gibraltar to Franz Theodore Stone, who donated the island retreat to The Ohio State University for use as a marine biology laboratory.
		The first four volumes of the Gibraltar Record (1864 to 1888) are housed at The Ohio State University archives in Columbus, Ohio.
	www.rbhayes.org /hayes/manunews/paper_trail_display.asp?nid=61&subj=manunews (678 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Atlantis 'obviously near Gibraltar'
		Collina-Girard's evidence is based on a study of sea levels that prevailed as the last Ice Age was ending.
		His assessment of the coral reef data shows the coastline off the southernmost tip of Spain and around Gibraltar 19,000 years ago to have been 130 metres (422 feet) below what it is today.
		This would have exposed an archipelago, with an island at the spot where Plato reported Atlantis to be in his work Timaeus.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1554594.stm (476 words)

	Business Information
		Business people from Gibraltar will be attending an Internet gambling conference in Antigua later this month.
		The Caribbean island has become the Internet gambling centre of the world, and many betting and gaming companies are based there.
		Gibraltar's Victor Chandler said recently it was moving its US sportsbook to Antigua.
	www.panorama.gi /archive/001120/business1.htm (306 words)

	[No title]
		Gibraltar Island is going to celebrate 300 years of British domination.
		The little island has been the matter of constant confrontation and the subject of continuous wrangles between the Britain and Spain, since it was conquered by British forces in 1704.
		Peter Caruana, Gibraltar's Chief Minister, assures this is Gibraltar’s ‘private opinion’ how to celebrate memorable days of relations with Great Britain.
	www.realestategates.com /News/11082004/EUArgumentColonyGibraltar0001.html (386 words)

	Put-in-Bay-South Bass Island State Park
		South Bass Island is accessible by ferry from Port Clinton or Catawba Island.
		Nestled in the heart of the "Lake Erie Wine Islands", Put-in-Bay is an ideal fall getaway.
		A gathering of boats and aircraft servicing the island to be blessed for the new season.
	www.heartofohio.com /SouthBassIsland.htm (1402 words)

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		If you choose to stay in a hotel on South Bass Island, your registration fee will be $200 and $250 (before and after 12 September) and you will be responsible for paying your hotel bill.
		Accommodations: All meetings and meals will be at Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island ( HYPERLINK "http://www.stonelab.ohio-state.edu" www.sg.ohio-state.edu) in the harbor at Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
		The village of Put-in-Bay is on South Bass Island.
	www.mbl.edu /naml/meeting/docs/fall_meeting.doc (453 words)

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