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EU: Baai (Trincomalee ?) te Ceylon begin jaren 40. (1942)
1942 Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
A bay near Trincomalee on the island of Ceylon, photographed in the early 1940s. Trincomalee's deep natural harbor on the island's east coast made it a strategically important port throughout the colonial era, valued in turn by Portuguese, Dutch and British forces.
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