Fun with Maps - Malta

Location, location, location.  That well-known real estate phrase certainly rings true for this episode’s map.  In this episode we are looking at the map of a small country that has a great strategic location – about midway between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal in the Mediterranean Sea. 

You may know it for two popular items – the Maltese Cross and the Maltese Falcon, a 1941 Humphrey Bogart movie.  Of course I am talking about the Southern European island country of Malta, an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea just 50 miles to the south of Sicily, 176 miles east of Tunisia and 207 miles north of Libya. 

 This is an interesting map –some might call it the stuff that dreams are made of – that’s a quote from Humphrey Bogart’s character Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon movie.

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