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Matapan

Southernmost cape of mainland Greece, off which, on 28 March 1941, during World War II, a British fleet under Admiral Cunningham sank an Italian squadron.



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The next day, the 16th of February, we left the basin which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago after having doubled Cape Matapan.
 
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