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Penon de Alhucemas

Peñón de Alhucemas, or Lavender Rock, is a tiny rocky island under Spanish sovereignty near the north African coast. Nearby is the place of the landing of the Spanish and French expeditionary forces in 1925 during the war of the Rif[?].

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