Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea, or the Med, (AUDIO: The Enemy Beyond) was a sea located between Africa and Europe. It was known by the Romans as the Mare Nostra. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)
It was a landlocked and virtually tideless sea. (AUDIO: The Stealers from Saiph)
The port city of Alexandria was located on the Mediterranean. (PROSE: The Ruby's Curse)
History
In 39 BC, the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrived on a Roman ship in the Mediterranean Sea which was unknowingly transporting a Gold Assassin to Cleopatra. (COMIC: Golden Slumbers)
In 64 AD, Ian Chesterton was taken as a slave and placed on a slave ship travelling across the Mediterranean Sea, but it subsequently was damaged in rough seas and broke up, allowing him and another slave to escape. (TV: The Romans)
In 1966, the SS Jolly Wanderer sailed on the Mediterranean Sea. (AUDIO: The Steel Cascade)
Professor Adam Merchant once unearthed a three-thousand-year-old Egyptian shipwreck beneath the Mediterranean. (AUDIO: The Enemy Beyond)
Parallel universe
In Roma V, the Mare Nostra was just a river after it was drained to irrigate the Sahara Desert. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)
Other references
Landing on a beach, the Second Doctor briefly suggested that he was in the Mediterranean before pointing out a tidal sea. He later found that he was in Atlantis, situated west of Gibraltar and south of Azores on the Atlantic Ridge. (TV: The Underwater Menace [+]Loading...["The Underwater Menace (TV story)"])
After landing near San Martino in Italy, the Fourth Doctor observed the use of glass technology indicating he was in the Mediterranean area in the late 15th century. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"])
