Sokotra
/ (səˈkəʊtrə) /
noun
a variant spelling of Socotra
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How to use Sokotra in a sentence
Sokotra itself is situated about 240 miles from Cape Guardafui, and is about 500 miles from Aden.
Southern Arabia | Theodore BentThey send sharks' fins to China from here, as well as from Sokotra and the Somali coast.
Southern Arabia | Theodore BentThe chief continental islands are Madagascar, Sokotra and Ceylon.
We assured them that we had landed in Sokotra (which they pronounce Sakoutra) to see the island, and not to circumnavigate it.
Southern Arabia | Theodore BentThey had heard how a Sokotran man had turned a woman of Maskat into a seal and forced her to swim over to Sokotra in that shape.
Southern Arabia | Theodore Bent
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