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28-FEB-2011

Pillars of Hercules: Jebel Musa & Rock of Gibraltar

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Jebel Musa (Arabic: جبل موسى‎, Jabal Mūsā), Mount Moses in English, is the name given to a mountain located in the northernmost part of Morocco on the African side of the Straits of Gibraltar. Together with the Rock of Gibraltar to the north, it is sometimes considered one of the Pillars of Hercules (this title is also claimed by Monte Hacho in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, some kilometres to the east of the mountain). It is 851 m (2,790 ft) high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Musa_%28Morocco%29

The Rock of Gibraltar (sometimes by its Latin name, Calpe, or from its original Arabic name: جبل طارق, or Jabal al Tariq ("Rock of Tariq"), from which its English name is derived; Peñón de Gibraltar in Spanish) is a monolithic limestone promontory located in Gibraltar, off the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is 426 m (1,398 ft) high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Gibraltar

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