Public transport in Istanbul the funicular was opened to the public. It is still in service. A commuter rail line was built on the European side of the city from Sirkeci to Hadımköy in 1872, which was followed in 1873 on the Anatolian part from Haydarpaşa Terminal to İzmit. The ferry is one of the oldest means of transit in İstanbul, a city with two parts separated by the Bosphorus strait and surrounded by sea. In 1837, British and Russian owned boats started transport on the Bosphorus. The İstanbul Maritime Company was established in 1851 by a decree of Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I. The
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