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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
| Aden is a volcanic outcrop at the southern end of the Red Sea and was a natural outpost guarding the entrance to the Indian Ocean in the last century. Hence the invasion by Britain in 1839, during the Victorian era, who saw the area as a staging post for its shipping and trade to the Far East. This shot was taken from HMS Hermes, a British aircraft carrier which was stationed off the coast at Aden at the time when Britain returned the colony to the Yeman in 1967 and ceased its occupancy. |
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