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63 unusual facts about Gibraltar


Agustín Fuentes

He has worked extensively with populations of macaques in Bali and Gibraltar, where the monkeys are a large tourist attraction, focusing on the spread of diseases between humans and macaques.

Ambrose Avellano

Ambrose Avellano (born 1951) is an artist from Gibraltar.

Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner

He was at first engaged in the mercantile profession and for several years represented a large firm in their establishment at Gibraltar.

Bland Group

The Gaggero family has been running the business since 1891 although the company began in 1810 when Marcus Henry Bland, from Liverpool began a shipping company from his house in Irish Town, Gibraltar.

Bomb Alley

Another bug prevented the major Allied base at Gibraltar from receiving additional supplies, but there was a stockpile at the start large enough to last through most games.

Bonner Fellers

A day after leaving Gibraltar, Convoy Harpoon's six merchantmen and their escorts came under continuous air attack.

British Forces Broadcasting Service

BFBS broadcasts to service personnel and their families and friends worldwide with local radio studios in Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and Northern Ireland and operational areas from the studio in Afghanistan.

Catalan Bay

Catalan Bay is home to the Caleta Palace Hotel, a number of restaurants (specialising in fresh seafood) and the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Daniel Montbars

He looted and set fire to Porto Caballo, San Pedro, Gibraltar and Maricaibo, among other Spanish strongholds, and captured or destroyed numerous other forts and settlements.

Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle

Lord Hoyle, already a Freeman of Gibraltar, was awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour, in March 2010, for being a 'supporter of Gibraltar and its people'.

Edward Arthur Butler

He joined the army at the age of 21, and served in Gibraltar, India and South Africa.

Ephippion guttifer

Ephippion guttifer, the prickly puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Gibraltar to Angola.

Evelyn Paul

Her father was the portraitist Robert Boyd Paul (1819–1903), and her mother was Annie née McGlashan (born 1858 at Gibraltar), the daughter of a sergeant in the Royal Artillery and Robert Paul’s 2nd wife.

Evgeny Vinokurov

The role of the enclaves as a generator of conflicts between motherland and surrounding states (e.g., Britain and Spain in the case of Gibraltar, Russia and the European Union in the case of Kaliningrad, Spain and Morocco in the case of Ceuta and Melilla) is of particular interest.

Fetcham Park House

But Moore spent so extravagantly that after his death in 1730 there were insufficient funds to maintain the estate and it was sold in 1737 to Thomas Revell, Agent Victualler at Gibraltar.

Fiona Dolman

She moved to Gibraltar when her father was posted there in the RAF as a pilot.

Francis Columbine

Cathedral Square in Gibraltar is on the site of what was Columbine Street.

Frederick Robe

He fought in the Syrian campaign of 1840-1, and was military secretary in Mauritius and Gibraltar.

Gandalara Cycle

Gandalara exists on the dry and salty floor of what will become the Mediterranean Sea once the floodgates of Gibraltar open up again.

George Washington Wilson

They date from the late 1850s down to the early years of the 20th century and cover not only Aberdeen and the North East but the whole of Scotland and most of England, as well as parts of Wales and Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Morocco including Tangier, the South of Spain, and (especially) colonial South Africa and Australia.

Gibbula tumida

This species occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the North Sea from Gibraltar to the Barentz Sea.

Gibraltar general election, 1988

The elections were a watershed in Gibraltar politics, as they saw the first win by the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP), led by Joe Bossano, whose candidates took 58% of the popular vote and eight of the fifteen seats available in the Gibraltar House of Assembly.

Gibraltar Hindu Temple

Gibraltarian Hindus make approximately 1.8% of Gibraltar's population.

In 2012, the Mayor of Gibraltar, Anthony Lima, made the news when he announced that he was inviting the Hindu community into Gibraltar City Hall to celebrate the Hindu festival of Deepavali.

Gibraltar referendum

There have been three referendums held in the territory of Gibraltar

Gibraltar Rock Provincial Park Reserve

Gibraltar Rock Provincial Park Reserve is a park and trail in Gibraltar in the Musquodoboit Valley in the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia.

Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire

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

Glyn Ford

Glyn Ford has said he will campaign for Gibraltar to have its own seat in the European Parliament, rather than only having representation through the South West England constituency.

Harpalus affinis

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Harpalus anxius

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

HMS Pargust

In May 1918, and now renamed Pangloss, she was transferred to Gibraltar.

J. Frank Norris

In September 1947, while on a tour of Europe, Norris secured an audience with Pope Pius XII and declared that the pope was "the last Gibraltar in Europe against Communism."

James Francis Garrick

Garrick was the second oldest of ten children of James Francis Garrick (b. 1803 in Deptford, Kent, England; d. 1874 in Sydney) and Catherine Eliza Garrick (née Branson, b. 1811 in Gibraltar; d. 1900 in Woollahra, Australia).

John F.C. Westerman

Late in life around 1977 he was known to have lived on a yacht both in Gibraltar harbour and off the coast of Gibraltar with his second wife Margaret, an Irish career nursing sister.

John Farmer Healy

Ordained to the priesthood on 11 June 1927, Healy was named the bishop title of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar, Gibraltar in 1956 and died in February 1973 while still in office.

José Cortés de Madariaga

He fled to Gibraltar in February 1814, and was delivered up by the acting governor, Sir George Don, to the Spanish authorities, but released in the following year on the reclamation of the British cabinet, which disavowed the conduct of the governor.

Juan Bautista Topete

He sent the steamer "Buenaventura" to the Canary Islands for Serrano and the other exiles; and when Prim and Sagasta arrived from Gibraltar, the whole fleet under the influence of Topete took such an attitude that the people, garrison and authorities of Cádiz followed suit.

Madame de Saint-Laurent

The Dukes's father, King George III, enrolled Edward in the army and had him posted to Gibraltar, where Edward made arrangements for her to be smuggled so they could be together.

Michael Wardian

In November 2009, Wardian finished third in the IAU World 50K championships held on the island of Gibraltar.

Michel de Grammont

De Grammont landed his men in Spanish-held Venezuela and captured Maracaibo then followed the capture and plundering of several smaller towns as Gibraltar, penetrating as far inland as Trujillo.

Moise Vauquelin

Vauquelin was one of several officers serving in this expedition and was present at the raids against Maracaibo and Gibraltar in 1666 and Puerto de Cavallo and San Pedro in 1667.

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.

Nathalie Sergueiew

Unfortunately British quarantine regulations meant that Babs was left behind at Gibraltar.

Nebria brevicollis

In Europe, it is found in all countries and islands except the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean Islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Selvagens Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

North Bastion

North Bastion, Gibraltar, a bastion at the northwest corner of the old town of Gibraltar

Rick Parfitt

However, in August 2006, after meeting 46 year old fitness instructor Lyndsay Whitburn, they married in a £40 ceremony in Gibraltar.

Royal Navy Recognised Sea Scouts

There are 101 Sea Scout Groups in the United Kingdom and one group in Gibraltar who are affiliated to the Royal Navy in order to foster a close relationship between the Royal Navy and young people in the Scout Association by making naval facilities and equipment accessible.

Saro Windhover

After modifications (addition of auxiliary winglet over engines to improve air flow and lift), it was sold to Francis Francis as G-ABJP, who onsold it in September to Gibraltar Airways for the Gibraltar-Tangier route.

Schuylkill Canal

Near Gibraltar, the Allegheny Creek Aqueduct still exists along with a drained section of the canal prism.

Scopula rubiginata

It is not present in most of the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula (with the exception of Gibraltar), Sicily and the southern Greek islands.

Sicco van Goslinga

In 1728 he represented the Republic at the congress of Soissons about outstanding European diplomatic issues (like the status of Gibraltar).

South Bastion

South Bastion, Gibraltar, a bastion at the southwest corner of the old town of Gibraltar

Spotless Starling

The highest population densities are in open grazed Holm Oak woods, and in urban habitats such as Gibraltar, where it is common.

Thomas Claude Robson

He caught a chill at Gibraltar in 1924, from which he never recovered, and he died, aged 26, at his parents’ residence in Kimberley.

Thomas Henry Kavanagh

He died in Gibraltar on 13 November 1882, and is buried at North Front Cemetery, Gibraltar.

Thomas Luny

This relationship between the Company and Luny also had several non-monetary benefits for Luny; it seems probable that, considering the great detail and realistic look of many of his sketches of locations such as Naples, Gibraltar, and Charleston, South Carolina, Luny was occasionally invited as a guest on the Company's ships on special occasions and voyages.

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.

Vikrant Bhargava

Vikrant Bhargava (विक्रान्त भार्गव) is an entrepreneur of Indian origin, based in Gibraltar and the former Group Marketing Director of online casino operator PartyGaming.

Vsevolod Bazhenov

In 1962 Bazhenov embarked on a working voyage on the ship "Eugene Nikishin", from Leningrad to Vladivostok around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore and Vietnam.

Willa Vasquez Serfaty

She was born in Gibraltar in 1954 into an artistic family, from an early age Willa became a pupil of local artist Leni Mifsud, one of the few women artists who were making their mark in painting.

Her work was chosen for a collection of works by artists of the Campo de Gibraltar held in the Spanish institute in Manhattan, New York, which subsequently toured various cities within the United States.

William Andrew Chatto

The only son of William Chatto, a merchant who died at Gibraltar in 1804, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 17 April 1799.

ZyngaPlusCasino

Zynga's games are licensed by the Government of Gibraltar and regulated by the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner.


Álvaro de Bazán the Elder

It has been speculated that this unusual appointment was intended to show Charles V's confidence but Bazán the Elder did not share that confidence and he suggested to no effect that Gibraltar's Line Wall Curtain be extended to the southern tip of the rock.

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles endorses: Paiste, Mapex, Evans, Pro-Mark, Audio-Technica, DW Pedals, Gibraltar Hardware, Zoom, Staff Drum, Santo Angelo, Urban Boards, Ciclotron, Shred Cases, AeroRic Custom Drums, Tander Tattoo Studio and Lady Snake Rock Wear.

Argo-class submarine

After refit at La Spezia, Velella sailed on 25 November 1940 and passed the Strait of Gibraltar on 1 December for an Atlantic patrol to Bordeaux on 25 December.

BBC Prime

This prompted GBC in Gibraltar to end terrestrial retransmission of BBC Prime in 1999.

British currency in the Middle East

The 1825 order-in-council was limited largely to the remnants of the old Empire in North America and the West Indies, along with New South Wales, Gibraltar, and some spoils of the Napoleonic wars such as the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Mauritius.

Charles Gomez

He was retained by the suspended Chief Justice of Gibraltar, Derek Schofield, in proceedings for the removal of Gibraltar's senior judge heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London which resulted in a 4/3 split of that court in a decision handed down on 12 November 2009.

Diocese of Gibraltar

The Diocese of Gibraltar is a jurisdiction within both the Anglican and Roman Catholic Church.

Early modern Britain

The British Empire was territorially enlarged: from France, gaining Newfoundland and Acadia, and from Spain, Gibraltar and Minorca.

Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford

After leaving Western Australia in January 1883 following disputes with the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Wrenfordsley and the Governor Sir William Robinson, Gifford was Colonial Secretary of Gibraltar from 1883 to 1887.

Europa Road

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

Friedrich Guggenberger

Whilst transiting the Straits on 13 November, he met the ships of Force H, returning to Gibraltar.

Harold Hall Australian Expeditions

For the first month a participant was General Sir Gerald Lathbury, a member of the funding committee and the Governor of Gibraltar.

Hattersley Memorandum

Apart for removing such an option from the constitutional and political development of Gibraltar, it effectively disbanded the Integration with Britain Party, which had been in office from 1969 to 1972, and was the main supporter of the integration of Gibraltar into the United Kingdom.

Henry Curzon

When France declared war in 1793, Lapwing escorted a convoy back from Gibraltar.

Henry Nugent

On 4 August 1704, Gibraltar was captured by an Anglo-Dutch force after a short siege which ended when Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered Gibraltar to Prince George, who took it in the name of the Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

History of nationality in Gibraltar

There was a Genoese population of fishermen who came to Gibraltar since 1840 for the fishing season and would build temporary shelters or live in caves, and by the 1878 census, they had established a permanent village at Catalan Bay.

History of the Jews in Gibraltar

Jews were given the right to permanent settlement in 1749, when Isaac Nieto, the new community's first Rabbi, came to the country from London and established congregation Sha'ar HaShamayim, the oldest synagogue in Gibraltar, otherwise known as the Great Synagogue.

HMS Royal Scotsman

From January 1942 she took part in extensive exercises for amphibious operations, and on 26 October sailed to Gibraltar as part of military convoy KMF1 for the invasion of North Africa in "Operation Torch".

Inundation, Gibraltar

Colonel Robert Morse of the Royal Engineers, Gibraltar's senior engineer at the time, was vehemently opposed as he feared that it would weaken the northern defences.

James Pattison Cockburn

They include A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, with 30 coloured plates, published in 1815; Swiss Scenery, with 62 plates, in 1820; The Route of the Simplon, in 1822; The Valley of Aosta, in 1823 and Pompeii Illustrated, in folio, in 1827.

John Shrimpton

In 1704, when the Garrison at Gibraltar came under threat from the French, a force of 2,500 troops under Shrimpton's command was dispatched to re-inforce the Garrison.

Main Street, Gibraltar

Gibraltar's town centre is largely protected by the Gibraltar Heritage Trust and is part of a continual restoration programme.

Northern Cyprus national football team

This also featured teams from Greenland, Tibet, Gibraltar, Zanzibar, and a team representing "The Republic of St. Pauli", amateur players drawn from the St Pauli district of Hamburg.

Peter Branson

In 1956, he was given command of the anti-submarine frigate HMS Roebuck and later given command of HMS Rooke, the naval base at Gibraltar.

Postage stamps and postal history of Spain

Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.

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.

Robert Alexander Innes

In April 1941 he sailed on HMS Argus for Gibraltar, where he was transferred to HMS Ark Royal and was one of a group of Hurricane pilots who flew off Ark Royal for Malta.

Robert Peliza

He founded and led the Integration with Britain Party and was the second Chief Minister of Gibraltar serving in office from 6 August 1969 to 25 June 1972.

Roy Stanbrook

Neil Costa, Minister for Tourism, Public Transport and the Port, and chairman of the board of directors of the Gibraltar Port Authority, commented on his selection of Stanbrook to lead the Gibraltar Port Authority.

Royal Naval Hospital

Royal Naval Hospital Gibraltar was replaced by PRMC Gibraltar (Princess Royal Medical Center Gibraltar), closed in 2007

Signal Station Road

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

Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet

Farquhar left the regiment at Gibraltar and spent 18 months travelling and studying medicine in France, working with Claude Nicolas le Cat in Rouen.

St. Theresa's Church, Gibraltar

The Gibraltar government proposed to rename the road which the church is on Bishop Devlin Lane but the name Devil's Tower Road was retained.

Town Range

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

Tunnels of Gibraltar

The formation appears to have been laid down in a tropical environment somewhat similar to the Bahamas today, and on the basis of fossil evidence an Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) age has been proposed for the Gibraltar Limestone, though in appearance it has a strong resemblance to the Carboniferous Limestone that underlies large parts of England and Wales.