Mombasa (/mɒmˈbæsə/ mom-BASS-ə; also US: /-ˈbɑːsə/ -BAH-sə) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It is the country's oldest (circa 900 AD) and second-largest city, with a population of about 1,208,333 people according to the 2019 census. Its metropolitan region is the second-largest in the country, and has a population of 3,528,940 people.
Mombasa in "Last Flight of the Swan of the East"[]
In October 1914, the American S.S. West Cobalt was bound for Mombasa when the German leviathan Emden seized and sunk her.[1]
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- ↑ Leviathans: Armored Skies, pgs. 333-338, loc. 4795-4885, ebook.
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