Pole minowe : incydent w kanale Korfu

Abstract

Disputes about territorial waters are not infrequent but it is not normal for nations take the extreme measures of rendering such disputed seas dangerous for navigation. But Albania did exactly this in 1946 by mining secretly the disputed Corfu Channel, and a British squadron steamed directly into this trap. The northern end of the island of Corfu (Kerkira) is separated from the Albanian shore by a very narrow channel only about 2 to 3 kilometres wide, and thus part of this channel falls unavoidably within Albanian territorial waters. Before the second world war this channel was considered to be an international waterway and after the war Britain continued to consider it as' such.