Description: Perron09_157 1884 Perron map BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT BETWEEN ARABIA AND AFRICA, #157 Nice small map titled Bab-el-Mandeb, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression. Overall size approx. 16 x 15 cm, image size approx. 10.5 x 7 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron. Bab el-Mandeb Strait Arabic Bāb al-Mandab strait between Arabia (northeast) and Africa (southwest) that connects the Red Sea (northwest) with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean (southeast). The strait is 20 miles (32 km) wide and is divided into two channels by Perim Island; the western channel is 16 miles (26 km) across, and the eastern is 2 miles (3 km) wide. With the building of the Suez Canal, the strait assumed great strategic and economic importance, forming a portion of the link between the Mediterranean Sea and East Asia. The flow through this strait provides for the circulation between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, since no flow takes place through the Suez Canal. The strait's Arabic name means “the gate of tears,” so called from the dangers that formerly attended its navigation.
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Publication Year: 1884
Year: 1884
Region: Asia
Topic: Maps
