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Libyan Desert / Gilf Kebir plateau

The English Patient — Libya

Scene

László Almásy explores and maps the Libyan Desert before the war — and carries a dying Katherine Clifton to the Cave of Swimmers.

History

László Almásy was a real Hungarian explorer who mapped the Libyan Desert in the 1930s. His maps were used by the German Abwehr in Operation Salam (1942) to infiltrate agents across Allied lines to Cairo. He was tried for collaboration after the war but acquitted. The Cave of Swimmers with its prehistoric rock art is real — in Wadi Sura, Egypt.

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