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The location of Telegraph Island. Telegraph Island (also known as Arabic: جزيرة تليغراف, Jazīrat al Maqlab, and Şağīr) is located in the Elphinstone Inlet or Khor Ash Sham, the inner inlet of Khasab Bay, less than 400 meters off the shore of the Musandam Peninsula, and less than 500 meters south of much larger but also much lesser known Sham Island, both of which are parts of ...
Telegraph Island, located in the Elphinstone Inlet. The Elphinstone Inlet, or Khor ash Sham (Arabic: خور الشم), is a inlet in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman.It was named for the-then Governor of Bombay, Mounstuart Elphinstone, by the British survey team that mapped it in 1820.
Dhows from Khasab take tourists on trips to view the dolphins common in the waters around the Musandam, as well as to visit the fjords and Telegraph Island. For a short time (between 1865 and 1868) Telegraph Island was the site of a staffed telegraph repeater station on the cable section between Bahrain and Bombay.
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The Persian Gulf is home to many islands, mostly small, distributed in the gulf's entire geographic area and administered by the neighboring nations.Most islands are sparsely populated, with some being barren, and some utilized for communication, military, or as ship docks.
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