Scrambled Geography
Mr J. S. Bowman has reminded us with gentle humour that our Rotary Club contributor got his geography or something a bit scrambled the other day when “talking about dams*jn the Sudan. The big one completed in 1937 was Gebel Aulia,. not Assuam. Sir John Gibson, the British engineer who planned the “mulberry port” for the Normandy landings at the end of the recent war, was responsible also for the Gebel Aulia dam.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 4
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75Scrambled Geography Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 4
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