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They drove 65 miles along the coast to Alamein, where Montgomery trounced Rommel's Afrika Korps in World War II, then turned south to the Qattara Depression. Egyptian desert patrols warned them that the route was unsafe because of old land mines still planted there, but since they had a four-day supply of food and water, they decided to cut across the unmarked desert. The going was a lot slower than they expected, and the Volks began to falter. Suddenly they realized that what had begun as a search for ancient gods might turn into a grim Götterd?...
Next to the Great Nile itself, Egypt's most awesome geographical feature is the Qattara Depression. Shaped like some splayfooted giant's footprint, this enormous sinkhole in the desert west of Cairo begins with a heel 35 miles south of the Mediterranean shore and then runs southward into the desert for some 185 miles. Covered with rock salt and slimy quicksand, Qattara is as desolate and lifeless as anything this side of the moon. Only generals have ever placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces...
Canal & Tunnels. Last week, after a month-long site study (using some of Rommel's leftover contour maps and aerial photographs), nine West German scientists and engineers settled down to write detailed reports on a daring project to convert the Qattara into a mammoth new power project. First suggested by the British more than 30 years ago, the idea is to dig a ditch from the Mediterranean to within nine miles of the Depression. Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim. Emerging from the tunnel, the water...
Sharing the Nile. For the U.A.R., Qattara could be a useful auxiliary to the 10 billion kw-h expected from the Aswan High Dam. Except for insignificant rainfall, Egypt depends totally on the Nile for irrigation and power. Since 1,900 miles of the Upper Nile belong to the Sudan and its headwaters to four other countries with demands of their own, Egypt's future development may someday require more power than its share of the Nile can provide...
...century, Lake Qattara could support a flourishing fishing industry until the salt concentration became too great. After that, the lake bottom could be mined for crystallized salt. If preliminary studies are encouraging, a three-year engineering study will be required before actual construction can begin...