As I was waiting at the stoplight on the road that leads to this unique place, a British Airways jet taxied right by me! My guide said I wasn’t seeing things -- the road is also the runway for airplanes coming to this territory. This place, which is just a bit more than 2 square miles in size, is best known for a nearly 1,400-foot-high limestone rock. Since there is no farmland here, food must be brought in for the 28,000 people who call this place home. And since there is no freshwater for drinking, a special facility has been built to remove salt from seawater. Once part of Spain, this place was captured by Great Britain in 1713. It’s been a British territory since then. So here I am in a British territory at the tip of Spain and less than 13 miles from Africa! Its location means this place plays an important role in keeping track of ships that pass from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. While I was touring the local port, I stopped to take a picture of one of about 250 monkeys -- called Barbary macaques -- that call this place home. They’re the only free-living monkeys in Europe

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