Cape Caphereus or Cape Kafireas (, older form: Καφηρεύς), also known as Cavo D'Oro (, from the Italian 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 s ...

on the southeastern tip of the island of

Euboea Euboea ( ; , ), also known by its modern spelling Evia ( ; , ), is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete, and the sixth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by ...

in the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...

. With the nearby island of

Andros Andros (, ) is the northernmost island of the Greece, 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 fruitful and ...

, 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 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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