Word: berbera
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That torrid little country (see map) is about the size of Missouri. Its capital, Berbera, is on the coast but has no port facilities. It has a municipal water system but no railway, no bank, no hotel. A coast road connects it through the secondary "port" of Zeila with Djibouti in French Somaliland which fell into Italy's hands in June...
British Somaliland looks and feels like a cross between the Montana badlands and Death Valley. Except in the mountains near the coast, which rise as high as 6,500 ft. in a wall behind Berbera, it rains only 2½ inches per year. In July and August a hot, dry monsoon blows from the blazing Ethiopian hinterland. Nothing grows in British Somaliland except thorn trees, dense dry "bush" and tough desert fodder to keep alive the nomadic natives' herds of sheep, goats, camels, ostriches...
...monoplane made round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland...