EU: View of Colombo Harbour (1910)
1910 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ships and boats fill Colombo Harbour in this 1910 photograph. As a major stop on shipping routes between Europe and East Asia, the harbor was one of the busiest in the British Empire during the early twentieth century, handling passengers and cargo alike.
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