Sri Lanka

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death

Clarke died in Colombo [Sri Lanka] on 19 March 2008, at the age of 90. His aide described the cause as respiratory complications and heart failure stemming from post-polio syndrome.

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Arthur C. Clarke

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Human Rights Watch

World Report 2024: Sri Lanka (hrw.org) Regressive government policies and inadequate social protection left many Sri Lankans at risk from the worst effects of the country’s economic crisis.

immigrant

Clarke emigrated to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956, to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year, he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient original Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee.

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Indian Ocean

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OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/536807

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Police car on fire in front of Old Navy

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q854

Wikipedia

Sri Lanka (Wikipedia) Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest.