Hugh Pollard flew General Francisco Franco to Morocco from an island in which ocean?
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Hugh Pollard (intelligence officer) Major Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (born London 6 January 1888: died Midhurst district March, 1966) was an author, firearms expert, and a British SOE officer. He is chiefly known for his intelligence work during the Irish War of Independence and for the events of July 1936, when he and Cecil Bebb flew General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco, thereby helping to trigger the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was the author of many published works on weaponry, in particular on sporting firearms.
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Canary Islands The Canary Islands ( ; Spanish: "Las Islas Canarias" ] , ] ) also known as The Canaries (Spanish: "Las Canarias" ), are an archipelago and autonomous community of Spain located on the Atlantic Ocean, 100 km west of Morocco. The Canaries are among the outermost regions (OMR) of the European Union proper. It is also one of the eight regions with special consideration of historical nationality recognized as such by the Spanish Government.
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Geography of the Marquesas Islands The Marquesas Islands are the island group farthest from any continent in the world, lying between 400 and 600 miles (600 and 1,000 km) south of the equator and approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) northeast of Tahiti. They fall naturally into two geographical divisions: the northern group, consisting of Eïao, Hatutu (Hatutaa), Motu One, and the islands centered on the large island of Nuku Hiva: Motu Iti (Hatu Iti), Ua Pou, Motu Oa and Ua Huka, and the southern group of Fatu Uku, Tahuata, Moho Tani (Motane), Terihi, Fatu Hiva and Motu Nao (Thomasset Rock), clustered around the main island of Hiva `Oa.
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Geography of Réunion Réunion is an island in Southern Africa, in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. It is an overseas region of France. The total area of the island is 2,512 km², of which 10 km² is water. The island has a coastline of 207 km. The maritime claims of Réunion include an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles, and a territorial sea of 12 nmi .
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Falcon Island Falcon Island is one of the islands in the Great Palm Island group, off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. The nearest island is Great Palm Island, after which the group is named.
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Mozambique Channel The Mozambique Channel (French: "Canal du Mozambique" , Malagasy: "Lakandranon'i Mozambika" , Portuguese: "Canal de Moçambique" ) is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is about 1600 km long and 419 km across at its narrowest point, and reaches a depth of 3292 m about 230 km off the coast of Mozambique. A warm current, the Mozambique Current, flows in a southward direction in the channel, leading into the Agulhas Current off the east coast of South Africa.
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Joinville Island Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about 40 nmi long in an east-west direction and 12 nmi wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound. Joinville Island was discovered and charted roughly during 1838 by a French expedition commanded by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Prince François, Prince of Joinville (1818–1900), the third son of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans. It is within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims.
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Lifou Lifou ] is a commune of France in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean.
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Bahía Cook Bahía Cook, also known in English as Cook Bay, is an irregular bay located between Londonderry Island, Hoste Island, "Olga Island" and Gordon Island southwest of Tierra del Fuego in Chile.
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Príncipe Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of 136 km² and a population of approximately 5,000. The island is a heavily eroded volcano speculated to be over three million years old, surrounded by smaller islands including Ilheu Bom Bom, Ilhéu Caroço, Tinhosa Grande and Tinhosa Pequena. Part of the Cameroon Line archipelago, Príncipe rises in the south to 948 metres at Pico de Príncipe, in a thickly forested area forming part of the Obo National Park.
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Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego Cook Island, also known as London Island, is an island located in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It lies west of Gordon Island, south of O'Brien Island and east of Londonderry Island at the head of Cook Bay, within the Alberto de Agostini National Park.
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Saint Helena Airport Saint Helena Airport (IATA: HLE, ICAO: FHSH) is an international airport in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, a remote island in the south Atlantic Ocean.
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List of colonial governors of Ifni This is a list of colonial heads of Ifni (1958−1969), a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. It was located across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands, and south of Agadir.
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Bora Bora Bora Bora is a 30.55 km2 island group in the Leeward group in the western part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The main island, located about 230 km northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 m .
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Duke of York Island (Chile) Duke of York Island (Chile) (Spanish: "Isla Duque de York") is an island in Magallanes Region, Chile.
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New Guinea New Guinea (Tok Pisin: "Niugini" ; Dutch: "Nieuw-Guinea" ; German: "Neuguinea" ; Indonesian: "Papua" or, historically, "Irian ") is a large island in Oceania. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of , and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania (if excluding Australia as an island).
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King George Island (South Shetland Islands) King George Island (Argentina: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chile: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian: Ватерло́о Vaterloo) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying 120 km off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The island was named after King George III.
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Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands ( ) or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues. The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in the early sixteenth century. The islands share a common geologic origin in the volcanism of the Réunion hotspot beneath the Mascarene Plateau and form a distinct ecoregion with a unique flora and fauna.
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Tahuata Tahuata is the smallest of the inhabited Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is located 4 km (2.5 mi.) to the south of the western end of Hiva Oa, across the Canal du Bordelais, called Ha‘ava in Marquesan.
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Touho Touho is a municipality (commune) in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Touho lies on the east coast of the main island (Grande Terre) and is served by a road and an airfield.
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Praia Praia (] , lit. "beach", in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole), is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast of Santiago island in the Sotavento Islands group. It is the island's ferry port and is home to one of the nation’s four international airports. The city centre is known as "Platô" due to its location on a small plateau.
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Savage Islands The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands (Portuguese: "Ilhas Selvagens" ] ) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic, 280 km south of Madeira, and 165 km north of the Canary Islands. The islands are also known in English as the Salvage Islands or Dry Salvages.