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EU: The coast near Trincomalee, Ceylon (early 1940s)
1940 Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
This early-1940s photograph shows the coastline near Trincomalee, whose deep natural harbor on Ceylon's northeast coast had made it a strategically valued anchorage since the era of European colonial rivalry in the Indian Ocean.
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