Jerba
Britishnoun
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The boat was taking on water near the Tunisian island of Jerba when it was intercepted, the ministry said.
From Reuters
The Gulf of Gabes, the Syrtis Minor of the ancients, is a semi-circular shallow indentation of the Mediterranean, about 50 m. across from the Kerkenna Islands, opposite Sfax on its northern shore, to Jerba Island, which lies at its southern end.
From Project Gutenberg
At first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological�in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Tunis, regiments of workmen obeyed, more and less satisfactorily, the behests of many and various heads of a large Franco-American mobilization whose collective effort is being expended to uncover Carthage�home of Dido, Hannibal, Hamilcar�and contemporary towns of the Punic civilization, buried Utica, submerged Jerba�the lotus-eaters' island of the ancients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Their headquarters were in the island of Jerba in the Gulf of Gabes.
From Project Gutenberg
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