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LO: Phaeleron Bay

Postby Lillie Frog » Sat May 29, 2004 6:13 pm

I've found all the places on the itinerary except Phaeleron Bay, does anyone know where/what it is? :?
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Postby jessia » Sat May 29, 2004 6:48 pm

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Postby Melancholy Man » Sat May 29, 2004 8:56 pm

i just might not exist... alternate world and all..


PP has been far too clever elsewhere for this to be a made-up place.

Phaethon Bay is a historical area on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey. It was from here that Greek colonists set out for Massalia (Marseilles) in c 600 BC.

I have a feeling Phaeleron was a site of a battle in WWII. Does PP's family have a connexion with the Greek theatre of war?
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Postby Enitharmon » Sat May 29, 2004 9:49 pm

Google comes up with surprisingly little. but I did find this amongst a list of members of the Gloucestershire Regiment killed in WW2

Lieutenant THOMAS JAMES HAWKER - 23rd December 1944
Attached 2nd Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry. Aged 31. Born 5th December 1923, second son of Henry and Rose Hawker, of Cheltenham, Glos. Killed by a sniper at 9.30 on the morning of the 23rd December 1944. Buried at Phaeleron War Cemetery, Greece.
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Postby Melancholy Man » Sat May 29, 2004 9:55 pm

Google comes up with surprisingly little.


You're right. Just two hits, and one of them's in Dutch.
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Postby Enitharmon » Sat May 29, 2004 9:58 pm

Although a little creativity with the spelling gets us more.

For example, http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/P/Phaleron-Bay.htm
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Postby Lillie Frog » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:44 pm

Thank you all for the info.
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Postby quentin » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:49 pm

A port peripheral to Athens.
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Postby Enitharmon » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:12 pm

Over two years! Is this a record for a necrophilic post?
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Postby Angel to follow » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:38 pm

Must have scrolled for ages to find it.
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Postby Somewhat » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:52 am

Not really. The entire Lyra's Oxford forum is one page long. But yeah, I think that is the record.
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Postby furbaby » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:32 am

My copy has Phaleron Bay, so presumably the early edition carried a misprint which has now been corrected. So quentin was right, it's Athens.

Something else regarding the cruise schedule: 60 hours from Algiers to Palma seems a trifle generous, but I'm no expert. :?
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