Durban (31.016E
29.853S) was the principal British
naval base in southeast South Africa.
With the Mediterranean closed to Allied
shipping when war broke out in the Pacific, Durban became an important
refueling point for convoys between the Atlantic and the Red Sea, the
Iraq oil fields, and India and the Far East.
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