Dardanelles
About Dardanelles
The Dardanelles, also known as the Strait of Gallipoli, is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey. Together with the Bosporus, the Dardanelles forms the Turkish Straits.
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The idea was damming up all the places where water could get in — dam up the Strait of Gibraltar, dam up the Dardanelles, dam up the bit between Tunisia and Sicily — and eventually water would stop coming into the Med and it would dry up.
from 163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 at 00:46:03 · read transcript
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Which your orders is probably, what, 700 mean? 700. Is that not a standard abbreviation of 100? 700. Oh, my God. Get with it, kids. Yeah. Then the second one was built 33 years later. They presumably thought, oh, this is a really good idea. That was slightly lower. That was the Hellespont, apparently, which is just... Oh, that's the Dardanelles. That's a different part of Istanbul, right?
No Such Thing As Captain Birdseye's Caribou Sausage, 2025-03-06 · listen
Cake and eat it but anyway so Turkey are now building a canal or they want to build a big old canal that goes right the way through Turkey so that you can either go on this route that goes through the Dardanelles and through the boss for us and pay your two P or you can pay more and go through the canal but you get through quicker and you don't have to queue up.
No Such Thing As Captain Birdseye's Caribou Sausage, 2025-03-06 · listen
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