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The threat of rock falls, water contamination and jellyfish have been used to deter visitors from Mallorcan beaches

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[โ€“] Skunk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Locals sometimes call it "the German island of Mallorca"

[โ€“] sab@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Germans also refer to it as the 17th Bundesland. A Bundesland is to Germany what a State is to the US.