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Calanshio Sand Sea

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15 years after it was reported missing in 1943. The crew bailed out believing they were over the sea, when their plane ran out of fuel, and they became lost. When they landed in the Libyan Desert they could feel a northwesterly breeze. Thinking they were near the Mediterranean, they headed into the
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up to 110m in height: these lie in a roughly north-south direction and were created by the
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inland from the Mediterranean, and slowly died from dehydration after covering
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wind hoping it would lead them to safety. However, they were more than
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and is contiguous with it at their northern ends. They contain
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with minimal water in a place so dry even the desert
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Index

sand desert
Libyan Desert
Kufra District
Cyrenaica
Libya
Jaghbub
Jalo
Kufra
Egyptian Sand Sea
dunes
wind
World War II
B-24 Liberator
Lady Be Good
Kufra
Bedouins
Libyan Desert
Ribiana Sand Sea
Idehan Murzuq
Idehan Ubari
Calansho Desert
GEOnet Names Server
this link
Desert Geomorphology, p. 403
BoksburgHistorical.com: African Relics (Calanshio Sand Sea and "Lady Be Good")
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Body and wallets lie among 200-foot dunes" ("Lady Be Good in the Calanshio Sand Sea)
Stub icon
Libya

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