• Thumbnail for Great Bitter Lake
    The Great Bitter Lake (Arabic: البحيرة المرة الكبرى; transliterated: al-Buḥayrah al-Murra al-Kubrā) is a large saltwater lake in Egypt which is part of...
    17 KB (1,828 words) - 13:36, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suez Canal
    single-lane waterway with passing locations in the Ballah Bypass and the Great Bitter Lake. It contained, according to Alois Negrelli's plans, no locks, with...
    127 KB (14,143 words) - 14:37, 20 March 2024
  • Bitter Lake is a 2015 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about...
    12 KB (1,439 words) - 16:32, 19 February 2024
  • Bitter Lake may refer to: Bitter Lake (Ontario), Canada Great Bitter Lake, Egypt Battle of Bitter Lakes, a 925 BCE conflict Bitter Lake (Day County, South...
    833 bytes (131 words) - 08:17, 14 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2021 Suez Canal obstruction
    tide to dislodge it. The ship started moving under tow towards the Great Bitter Lake for technical inspection. The canal was checked for damage and found...
    97 KB (8,523 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yellow Fleet
    Trapped in the Bitter Lake]. NDR (in German). 24 May 2020. "Acht Jahre gefangen im Großen Bittersee" [Trapped in the Great Bitter Lake for 8 years]. DVZ...
    14 KB (1,232 words) - 17:42, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Bardawil
    to be one of the three major lakes of the Sinai Peninsula, along with the Great Bitter Lake and the Little Bitter Lake. It continues to decrease in size...
    9 KB (853 words) - 09:05, 2 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of bodies of water by salinity
    "Aquatic ecosystem health and trophic status classification of the Bitter Lakes along the main connecting link between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean"...
    15 KB (956 words) - 13:30, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Chinese Farm
    Yom Kippur War. It was fought in the Sinai Peninsula, north of the Great Bitter Lake and just east of the Suez Canal, near an Egyptian agricultural research...
    49 KB (7,048 words) - 15:18, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italian battleship Littorio
    agreement, Italia was interned at Malta, Alexandria, and finally in the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal, where she remained until 1947. Italia was awarded...
    22 KB (2,580 words) - 07:43, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yom Kippur War
    the Great Bitter Lake. After intense fighting, the IDF progressed towards Cairo and advanced southwards on the east bank of the Great Bitter Lake and...
    254 KB (31,592 words) - 16:39, 6 March 2024
  • October 17, 1973, the eleventh day of the Yom Kippur War, east of the Great Bitter Lake, in the Sinai Peninsula. The ambush was conducted by the Israel Defense...
    4 KB (393 words) - 12:19, 22 December 2023
  • Greater Bitter Lake and Lesser Bitter Lakes and el-Temmsah Lake (The crocodile lake). In Ismailia Governorate. Salt water Lake in North shore of River Nile...
    3 KB (267 words) - 17:59, 26 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Suez Company (1858–1997)
    to the existence of the Suez Canal, Port Said and Lake Timsah had few residents, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry basin, and drinking water was difficult...
    33 KB (4,386 words) - 22:07, 25 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Evergreen G-class container ship
    Suez Canal for six days. The ship was freed but then held in the Great Bitter Lake over a 900 million dollar compensation claim by the Suez Canal Authority...
    9 KB (528 words) - 10:25, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Littorio-class battleship
    September, when they were transferred to Alexandria. They remained at the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal for the rest of the war. On 6 June 1946, Vittorio...
    39 KB (5,131 words) - 07:39, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Ismailia
    established bridgehead west of the Canal at the northern end of the Great Bitter Lake, the IDF launched an offensive from Deversoir toward Ismailia. A combined...
    42 KB (5,635 words) - 10:27, 26 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bitter Lake, Seattle
    Bitter Lake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, named after its most notable feature, Bitter Lake. It was a mostly natural forest...
    7 KB (477 words) - 01:02, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Raid on the Suez Canal
    the Great and Little Bitter Lakes and Lake Timsah, which divided the three sectors organised for the defence. These were, Suez to the Bitter Lakes Deversoir...
    33 KB (4,626 words) - 10:09, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Farouk of Egypt
    the United States on abroad the cruiser USS Quincy, anchored in the Great Bitter Lake. Farouk seemed confused by the purpose of the meeting with Roosevelt...
    152 KB (21,194 words) - 02:43, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Manzala
    growth. Lake Manzala is the northernmost of three natural lakes intersected by the Suez Canal, the other two being Lake Timsah and the Great Bitter Lake. Construction...
    6 KB (559 words) - 00:16, 13 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Christopher Lee
    the Nieuw Amsterdam. After "killing time" at RAF Kasfareet near the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal Zone in 1942, he resumed intelligence work in the...
    107 KB (11,487 words) - 19:08, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lazarus Lake
    History), retrieved 2022-12-02 "Good Luck, Morons: Lazarus Lake and His Impossible Race". THE BITTER SOUTHERNER. Retrieved 2022-12-02. "Gary Cantrell – 2023...
    14 KB (1,479 words) - 17:59, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deversoir Air Base
    of the Suez Canal, being constructed at the northwest shore of the Great Bitter Lake. During World War II, it was used as a military airfield by the RAF...
    7 KB (714 words) - 22:01, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Giora Epstein
    on October 24, 1973, Epstein downed three more MiG-21s west of the Great Bitter Lake. Eight of these victories were with the French-built Mirage III, a...
    5 KB (492 words) - 19:11, 23 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ibn Saud
    February 1945. The meeting took place on board USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake segment of the Suez Canal. The meeting laid down the basis of the...
    65 KB (7,617 words) - 19:20, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Military Training Mission
    King Abdul Aziz and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Great Bitter Lake. USMTM coordinates security assistance efforts to train, advise, and...
    15 KB (983 words) - 18:08, 25 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Operation Badr (1973)
    spanning 160 kilometers (99 mi) of the canal's east bank (except for the Great Bitter Lake, where the width of the canal made a crossing unlikely). To prevent...
    103 KB (14,924 words) - 22:11, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bar Lev Line
    Canal, with the exception of the Great Bitter Lake (where a canal crossing was unlikely due to the width of the lake). The Bar-Lev Line was designed to...
    16 KB (2,128 words) - 07:48, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Egypt
    is a single lane with passing places in the Ballah By-Pass and the Great Bitter Lake. It contains no locks; seawater flows freely through the canal. On...
    233 KB (22,379 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2024