Map of Somalia coast circa 1750
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Mogadishu: Inside the old port
See the port entrance gates to the middle left and the “binoculars” to their right. Both can be seen in seperate photos: Somalia – Mogadiscio – L’ingresso all Doganaand Mogadiscio – Piazza 21 April
Somalia – Mogadiscio – L’ingresso all Dogana
This gateway is visible in another photo below (Mogadiscio – Piazza 21 April) and can be found on Google Maps around here:
Mogadiscio – Villini Incis
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Mogadiscio – Piazza 21 April
Still intact in the 1980′s and known then to expatriates in Mogadishu as “the binoculars”
The entrance to the old port is visible on the left. The sea is in the distance.
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Somalia – Mogadiscio – Casa Muddafer
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Somalia – Mogadiscio – La Sede dell’Intendenza
Mogadishu Lighthouse, 1912
From http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/som.htm
ETH Zurich Creative Commons image
Merca lighthouse, date unknown
Merka Range Rear Light
postcard image courtesy of Michel Forand
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/som.htm
A Somali village
Page 80, The Graphic, July 26, 1884
One of three engravings colelctively titled “Territory Recently Occupied by Our Troops in East Africa”
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The location as shown by Google Maps
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