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EU: De kust bij Trincomalee (Ceylon) begin jaren 40 (1940)
1940 Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Trincomalee's coastline is shown here around 1940, when the island was still the British colony of Ceylon. The town's natural deep-water harbor, among the finest in the Indian Ocean, had long made it a strategically important port on Sri Lanka's northeast coast.
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