The corpse of Henry, Count of Niebla, was hung from a basket after he drowned trying to take thislocation in 1436.
The corpse of Henry, Count of Niebla, was hung from a basket after he drowned trying to take thislocation in 1436. During World War II, Polish leader Wladyslaw Sikorski died mysteriously when hisplane plunged into the sea after taking off from this place. The Marquis de Salines blew up his ownfortifications here to defend against an attack on the Old Mole in 1704, when Admiral George Rooketook it for Britain. It officially became a British (*) possession through the Treaty of Utrecht. Lying justwest of Algeciras, this peninsula is supposedly the site of the northern Pillar of Hercules, whose counterpartlies across a namesake strait in Tangier, Morocco. For 10 points, name this peninsula at the Southern tip ofSpain, dominated by a massive "Rock."
The corpse of Henry, Count of Niebla, was hung from a basket after he drowned trying to take thislocation in 1436.
Gibraltar [or Rock of Gibraltar; prompt on "Iberia"]