Cape Caphereus or Cape Kafireas ( el, Ακρωτήριο Καφηρέας, older form: Καφηρεύς), also known as Cavo D'Oro ( el, Κάβο Ντόρο, from the

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

for "Cape of Gold") is a

promontory A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula). Most promontories either are formed from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have removed the so ...

on the southeastern tip of the island of

Euboea Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poin ...

in the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek language, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish language, Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It ...

. With the nearby island of

Andros Andros ( el, Άνδρος, ) is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, about southeast of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . It is for the most part mountainous, with many fr ...

, it forms the Kafireas Straits or Doro Channel - historically called the Doro Passage or D'Oro Passage. In earlier times the channel was one of the most dangerous areas for shipping in the entire Aegean. The

Battle of Doro Passage The Battle of Doro Passage was a naval engagement during the United States Navy's operation against Greek pirates in the Aegean Sea. On October 16, 1827 a British merchant ship was attacked by pirates in Doro Passage off the islands of Andros a ...

took place on 16 October 1827, and was a small naval engagement in which a British merchant ship, ''Comet'', was captured by Greek pirates but then liberated by an escorting warship USS ''Porpoise''. Sinkings in the channel include the British sailing ship ''Providence'' in 1835, the sailing vessel ''Kleopatra'' sunk during World War I by ''UC-23'' and the SS ''Tampico'', an Italian tanker, torpedoed during World War II.

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