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Piracy in the Gulf of Aden: Naval Challenges

Maritime Affairs:Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India, 2010
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden, which first emerged as a serious threat in 2005, has since grown manifold, virtually doubling with each passing year between 2006 and 2009. In 2010, though, there was a slight dip in the number of attacks by the Somali pirates the range of piracy attacks has increased significantly.
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Geothermal Heat Flow in the Gulfs of California and Aden

Science, 1963
Eighteen measurements in and near the gulfs of California and Aden indicate the geothermal flux is several times the world-wide mean of 1.2 × 10 -6 cal/cm 2 sec in both regions. Both gulfs closely coincide with the intersection of oceanic rises with continents and have likely been formed ...
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How to Tackle the Gulf of Aden Buccaneers [PDF]

, 2010
The surge of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden is often related to lawlessness and poverty in Somalia. We set up a simple model to describe the choice of becoming a pirate in a setting with an industrialized and a developing country which both engage in fishing in the same waters.
Calahorrano, Lena, an de Meulen, Philipp
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The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden

The Geographical Journal, 1938
reports of previous observers no certain inference can be drawn. The uplift of a folk so few and feeble is not easy; Muslim, Hindu, and Christian philanthropists have tried and failed, the Governments of Madras and Cochin have now taken up the task.
D. A. B., Geoffrey Archer, Eva M. Godman
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Piracy in Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Aden

2014
Despite the efforts of littoral states in Southeast Asia to patrol their waters (Ebata 1997: 38–9; Hesse 2002: 60), acts of piracy increased steeply in the region towards the end of the 1990s (see Appendix 1). The narrow Malacca Straits in particular is vulnerable to piratical attacks and is Japan’s most important sea lane as 80 per cent of Japan’s oil
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Interpretation of Seafloor Characteristics in the Gulf of Aden

2001
Abstract : We collected multibeam bathymetry on two physical oceanographic cruises to the Gulf of Aden and a transit leg through the Gulf. These data have been edited, corrected for speed of sound and merged into a single data set with information from NGDC trackline bathymetry and ETOPO2 estimated water depths to fill in gaps.
David Ross, Stephen A. Swift
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A bathymetric and magnetic survey of the gulf of tadjura, Western Gulf of Aden

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1968
Two recent bathymetric and magnetic surveys in the Gulf of Tadjura are discussed. The westward continuation into the Gulf of the axial trough and linear magnetic anomalies of the Sheba Ridge (which represents the continuation of the Carlsberg Ridge into the Gulf of Aden) is demonstrated.
D.G. Roberts, R.B. Whitmarsh
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Aden and the Gulf: the reflections of a political officer

Middle Eastern Studies, 2016
ABSTRACTThe author vividly records his impressions of life in the Western Aden Protectorate in the 1960s during the years leading up to the independence of the territory in 1967. As a political officer advising various Arab tribal leaders he describes how his responsibilities could range far wider than the provisions of the Advisory Treaties, and he ...
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Bad order at sea: From the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Guinea

African Security Review, 2009
At the dawn of the 21st century - in particular as a result of increasing bad order at sea - maritime matters have increasingly edged their way upwards on national and international security agendas. Kaplan recently reiterated the conflict-commerce and resource connections in an essay published in Foreign Affairs in which he depicted the Indian Ocean ...
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The Gulf of Aden and Northwest Arabian Sea

1982
The area discussed in this chapter extends from Ras el Hadd along the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula to Bab el Mandab at the entrance of the Red Sea, and the Horn of Africa from its connection with the Red Sea to the eastern tip of the Socotra archipelago (Fig. 1).
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