Gibraltar


 * Dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar
 * Penninsula at the southern tip of Spain
 * Supposedly the site of the northern Pillar of Hercules
 * Southern one is in Tangier, Morocco
 * West of Algeciras
 * Became a British possession through the Treaty of Utrecht
 * The MArquis de Salines blew up his own fortifications here to defend against an attack on the Old Mole in 1704 when Admiral George Rooke took it for Britain
 * During WWII, Polish leader Wladyslaw Sikorski died mysteriously after his plane took off from here
 * The corpse of Hnery, Count of Niebla, was hung from a basket after he drowned trying to take this