Matapan

American  

[mat-uh-pan] / ˈmæt əˌpæn /

noun

1. Cape, a cape in S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.

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Matapan British  

/ ˌmætəˈpæn, ˈmætəˌpæn /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Taínaron. a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece

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Matapan

Sailed into the Matapan Sea, bound for Aliaga, Bannock had quickly listed and capsized, ceasing to exist in the old-fashioned way, by sinking to the bottom.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2017

Admiral Cunningham has on his escutcheon the fair marks of Taranto, Matapan and last year's Libyan show.

From Time Magazine Archive

Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March 1941 sea battle off Greece's Cape Matapan, where the Royal Navy crippled Italy's numerically superior force.

From Time Magazine Archive

They live in Swampscott and Matapan and Cheshire, Vermont, and Rumford, Maine, and Fairfield, Connecticut, and even, apparently, in the American South.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had rounded Matapan with a snoring breeze on the port beam.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman

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