Portmanteau/Archipelago/أَرْخَبيل research

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_{Juvenile Western Osprey at Cairn Island¹}		^{Suakin Archipelago²}
_{Crab Plovers at Flamingo Bay^³}		^{Flamingo military base, Red Sea State}
_{Mudathir's roof 16th of April 2023⁴}		^{Hay Al Azama حي العظمة}
_{Mudathir's roof 16th of April 2023 cont.}		_{Hay Al Azama حي العظمة}
_{Mudathir's roof 16th of April 2023 cont.}		_{Hay Al Azama حي العظمة}
_{Azhan at dawn 17th April 2023 from the courtyard⁵}		^{جامع العظمة}

_{All photos original unless otherwise stated}
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_{1 Western Osprey footage. I had placed four recording devices on Cairn overnight. Three made it, one disappeared. We put it down to the wind muffs on the clippy mics. Beyond any reasonable doubt the Ospreys or Egrets had been inticed by the grey balls of fluff and took them for their nests. We searc

hed for hours, no tree on the island was left unturned. It was just us and the birds, the island could be considered a nest conglomerate. What’s on that recording can only be left to the imagination.}

_{Cairn Island doesn’t appear on google maps. Find here on Satellites.pro}

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2 Suakin Archipelago

^{‘The instability of the place, seems to draw energy into its circuit. There is a sense, crossing the ground, that all of these historically disparate forces, some of them supposedly long discharged, still live here. This is no fanciful stab at a seaside psycho geography, no conjecture regarding occult intensities at work beneath the stones. It is simply to say that the territory, by virtue of its emptiness, has retained to a remarkable extent the remnants of past movements across its surface. It is impossible to walk this land without feeling oneself at the nexus of these energies: the slow edging of the settlement itself out toward the point; the fishing fleet's ancient slipways; the routes of at least three railway lines; the beams of several lighthouses, now destroyed; the sounds of their foghorns ... and so forth.’}

^{- Brian Dillon, Lost Time Accidents (no.19), Objects in this Mirror, 2014}

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_{3 Crab Plovers at Flamingo Bay mangroves

Recordings interrupted by rifle shots heard early morning from training at the Flamingo military base nearby}_{Drone images courtesy of Huzaifh Suleiman}_______________________________
_{4 19°36'59.9"N 37°12'48.5"E 19.616630, 37.213477
Sunday 16th April, second day of conflict. Fighter jets and shots heard in Port Sudan.

Syrinx diagram}