Ferries in Istanbul Ferries in Istanbul The city of Istanbul is at a geographic crossroads, straddling Europe and Asia Minor, and is divided by a sea lane called the Bosphorus Strait, which joins the Black Sea in the northeast and the Marmara Sea in the southwest. This strait has played a key role in the history of the city. Boats have traversed the waters of the Bosphorus for millennia and until the opening of the first Bosphorus bridge in 1973, were the only mode of transport between the European and Asian halves of Istanbul. They continue to serve as a key public transport
City of the Caesars shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan, survivors in exile of the Disaster of Curalaba, ghosts, Patagonian giants and survivors of the Inca Empire; indeed, one explanation of the legend is that it derived from stories told to sailors by aborigines describing the Empire of Peru. Charles Sheffield's science fiction story "Trapalanda" (in "Asimov's Science Fiction," June, 1987) is built around a quest to find Trapalanda. City of the Caesars The City of the Caesars (Spanish Ciudad de los Césares), also variously known as "City of Patagonia", "the Wandering City", "Trapalanda" or "Trapananda", "Lin Lin" or "Elelín", is a mythical city