Mapping East Africa’s Somali Pirate Activities
UNOSAT has released the following map of pirate activity off the coast of Somalia in 2007. Fascinating map.
You can download the much larger and more detailed 6Mb PDF of the map here, or you can click on the image above to see a larger jpg of it.
[via War & Health and Humanitarian.info]
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So most of the activity in Somaliland’s waters is “suspicious approach” while other regions have “attempted highjacking” and “hijacking”..
Ah.. The benefits of a state.
[...] Africa writes about a map showing pirate activities in Somalia: “UNOSAT has released the following map of pirate activity off the coast of [...]
[...] Если кому интересно, здесь лежит детальная карта пиратских нападений у берегов Сомали: http://whiteafrican.com/2008/04/04/mapping-east-africas-somali-pirate-activities/ [...]
[...] ceremonial garb of the Church of the FSM. I’m talking about real twenty-first century pirates operating off the coast of Somalia and throwing global shipping lanes into chaos. They’re the closest thing to classical pirates [...]
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