The Pyrenees was a European mountain range running across the border between France and Spain.
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In the 1190s, the domain of England stretched from the Cheviots to the Pyrenees. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Crusaders [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)"])
In the late 19th century, the Stone Age engravings were discovered in the Trois Freres cave, in the Pyrenees. (PROSE: Doctor Who Discovers Early Man [+]Loading...["Doctor Who Discovers Early Man (novel)"])
During World War II, members of the French Resistance, civilians and other Allied forces or sympathisers attempted to cross the Pyrenees into neutral Spain to escape the Nazi occupation. In February 1944, the Second Doctor with Ben Jackson and Jamie McCrimmon managed pilot the TARDIS to pick Polly up from the French side of the Pyrenees after they were separated. (AUDIO: Resistance [+]Loading...["Resistance (audio story)"])
The Second Doctor found a map of the Pyrenees in the glove compartment of Flora Millrace's Volkswagen Beetle in 1968. (PROSE: The Avant Guardian [+]Loading...["The Avant Guardian (short story)"])
A Cyber-ship crashed here sometime before the year 2021, and the survivors attempted an invasion of the Earth. (AUDIO: The Harvest [+]Loading...["The Harvest (audio story)"])