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unusual facts about British Overseas Territory



Anguilla at the Commonwealth Games

Anguilla which is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean has competed at three Commonwealth Games to date, beginning in 1998.

Castle Street, Gibraltar

Castle Street (Calle de la Cuesta or more popularly Calle Comedia) is a road of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Cathedral Square, Gibraltar

Cathedral Square is a square within the city centre of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Devil's Gap Road

Devil's Gap Road (Escalera del Monte in Spanish) is a street in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Europa Road

Europa Road is a major road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Europort Avenue

Europort Avenue is an avenue in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Gibraltar F.C.

Gibraltar Football Club was an association football team based in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Glacis Road

Glacis Road is a road in northern end of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, the southwestern end of which is the junction with the Waterport Roundabout, where Waterport Road and Queensway also intersect.

Limassol District

Part of the British overseas territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia forms an enclave on the Akrotiri peninsula, under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

Line Wall Road

Line Wall Road is a road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Lynx F.C.

Lynx F.C. is an amateur football club from the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Mike Hentley

Michael Hentley was the administrator for the British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha, which is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Outline of São Tomé and Príncipe

It is the smallest country in the world that is not a former British overseas territory, a former United States trusteeship, or one of the European microstates.

Prince Edward's Road

Prince Edward's Road is a one-way road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Project Vitello

Project Vitello was a military operation that transferred the 9.2-inch Mark X breech-loading gun at Spur Battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

Queen's Road, Gibraltar

Queen's Road is the longest road the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Queensway, Gibraltar

Queensway is a main coastal road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the only road servicing the oldest leisure marina on The Rock, Queensway Quay.

Rosia Road

Rosia Road is a western road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Signal Station Road

Signal Station Road is a road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Thomas Melville Dill

Dill was born in Devonshire Parish, in the British colony of Bermuda, the son of Mary Lea (née Smith) and Thomas Newbold Dill.

Town Range

Town Range is a major road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

United Kingdom constituencies

The South West England constituency was expanded from the 2004 elections onwards to include Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory that is part of the European Union, following a court case.


see also

Ben Young

Benjamin Stanley Young (1851-1934), Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands

Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire

The hamlet is named after the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Matt McCoy

Matthew Edmond McCoy (1868–1929), Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island, 1909

Mount Pleasant Airport

RAF Mount Pleasant, a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands (IATA: MPN)

Nadhim Zahawi

In November 2013 it was reported by the Birmingham Mail newspaper that in May 2011 (one year after he became an MP) Nadhim Zahawi used as a mortgage lender a company called Berkford Investments Limited, which was based in the low-tax British overseas territory of Gibraltar, to finance the purchase of his constituency home 'Oakland' riding stables estate (worth at the time £875,000) in Upper Tysoe, near Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire.

RGP

Royal Gibraltar Police - One of the two principal civilian law enforcement agencies in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.