Akrotiri & Dhekelia

· SBA Administration — the official administration site: ordinances, planning, police, customs.
· UK FCDO travel advice — Cyprus.
· US State Department — Cyprus advisory.
· Visit Cyprus — the Republic's tourism board, which covers Lady's Mile, the salt lake and Kourion.
· Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar) — the Akrotiri site sheet.
· BirdLife Cyprus — species lists, survey data and the ringing programme.
· House of Commons Library — CBP-10540, "The UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus: status and recent developments", the clearest free explainer of the legal position.
· Forces News — Cyprus — reliable operational reporting on the bases.
· Cyprus — Kaufmann World Travel Factbook, for the island around them.

· Bitter Lemons of Cyprus — Lawrence Durrell (1957). The classic: Durrell buys a house in Bellapais, teaches, and watches the island slide into the EOKA emergency that produced the bases. Beautiful, partial, indispensable.
· Cyprus: A Modern History — William Mallinson. The standard scholarly account of 1878 to the present, strong on the 1960 treaties and the reasoning behind the SBAs.
· Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide — Yiannis Papadakis. An anthropologist crosses his own island; the best book on how Cypriots actually experience partition.
· The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878–1974 — Andrekos Varnava. Rigorous, unsentimental history of exactly this territory.
· The Cyprus Emergency: The Divided Island 1955–1974 — Nick van der Bijl. The military campaign that made retaining the bases seem necessary.
· House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10540 — free, current, and the only thing most people actually need to understand the SBAs' legal status.
· The Birds of Cyprus — BirdLife Cyprus / Colin Richardson & others. The field reference for anyone visiting the salt lake.

Rather than link individual videos that go stale, here are the searches worth running — all of them return solid current material:

· "RAF Akrotiri Cyprus documentary" — Forces News and MoD footage of the airfield and its operational role.
· "Akrotiri Salt Lake flamingos" — the winter spectacle, drone-free footage from the public viewpoints.
· "British Sovereign Base Areas Cyprus explained" — the geopolitics and the enclave geography, including several excellent map-nerd explainers.
· "Kourion ancient theatre Cyprus" — the archaeology, and performances in the theatre.
· "St Nicholas of the Cats monastery" — the cats, at length, as is only right.
· "Episkopi Cantonment British Forces Cyprus" — life in the garrison.