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Hengam Island
Hengam Island ( fa, جزیره هنگام) is an Iranian island located south of Qeshm Island, Iran, in the Persian Gulf. Geography It is wide and shaped like a truncated cone. The island is generally calcareous and generally low-lying. The highest point on the island is Nakas Mountain with an altitude of about . The distance between Hengam Island and Qeshm Island is about The primary economic activity is fishing, as well as some tourism and sightseeing. The main sights of Hengam are the English harbor buildings along with the coal storage, the Portuguese shipwrecks, and aquatic animals such as turtles, dolphins, corals, and sharks. See also * Hormozgān Province *List of islands of Iran *List of lighthouses in Iran Gallery File:Hengamsland.jpg, File:HengamDolphins.jpg, References Further reading * ''Speak the Wind'' (Mack, 2021; photographs by Hoda Afshar; essay by Michael Taussig) This work documents the landscapes and people of the islands of Hormuz, Qeshm, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Islands Of Iran
This is a list of islands of Iran. Coastal islands Persian Gulf ;Inhabited * Bent (île), Bent * Buneh * Dara Island, Dara * Farsi Island, Farsi * Faror Island, Faror * Farvargan * Hendorabi * Hengam Island, Hengam * Hormuz Island, Hormuz * Jonobi * Kharg Island, Kharg * Kish (Iran), Kish * Larak Island, Larak * Lavan Island, Lavan * Minu Island, Minu * Qabre Nakhoda Island, Qabre Nakhoda * Qeshm * Shidvar Island * Shif * Shomali * Sirri Island, Sirri * Abu Musa * Greater Tunb * Lesser Tunb ;Uninhabited * Farvargan (Lesser Farvar) * Shidvar * Abbasak Island, Abbasak * Sheif * Tahmadu (Jabrin) * Ommol-korm * Nakhiloo * Naaz islands * Om-e-Sile (Khan) * Germ Island, Germ * Bouneh * Dara Island, Dara * Ghabr-e-Nakhoda (Captain Grave) * Kharv Island, Kharv * Mouliat * Se Dandun (Three Dents) * Mataf, Motaf * Morghi * Cheraghi Oman Sea * Devil's Island (Iran) Caspian Sea *Ashuradeh Island Inland islands ;Aras River 427 islands shared with Turkey and Azerbaijan, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qeshm County
Qeshm County ( fa, شهرستان قشم) is in Hormozgan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... The capital of the county is the city of Qeshm. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 103,881 in 22,642 households. The following census in 2011 counted 117,774 people in 28,798 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 148,993 in 40,506 households. Qeshm is a free trade zone and has good potential for business. Administrative divisions The population history of Qeshm County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses is shown in the following table. The latest census shows three districts, seven rural districts, and four cities. References Counties of Hormozgan Province {{Hormozgan-geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islands Of Iran
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago. There are two main types of islands in the sea: continental and oceanic. There are also artificial islands, which are man-made. Etymology The word ''island'' derives from Middle English ''iland'', from Old English ''igland'' (from ''ig'' or ''ieg'', similarly meaning 'island' when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch ''eiland'' ("island"), German ''Eiland'' ("small island")). However, the spelling of the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hormuz Island
Hormuz Island (; fa, جزیره هرمز ''Jazireh-ye Hormoz''), also spelled Hormoz, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. Located in the Strait of Hormuz, off the Iranian coast, the island is part of Hormozgan Province. It is sparsely inhabited, but some development has taken place since the late 20th century. History The earliest evidence for human presence on the island is several stone artifacts discovered at the eastern shorelines of the Island. A lithic scatter was found at a site called Chand-Derakht, which is an uplifted marine Pleistocene terrace. This site yielded a Middle Paleolithic lithic assemblage characterized by Levallois methods and dates back to more than 40,000 years ago. The island, known as Organa () to the ancient Greeks and as Jarun in the Islamic period, acquired the name of "Hormuz" from the important harbour town of Hormuz (Ormus) on the mainland 60 km away, which had been a centre of a minor principality on both sides of the strait. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Taussig
Michael T. Taussig (born 3 April 1940 in Sydney) is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University. He is best known for his engagement with Karl Marx, Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin. Taussig has also published texts on medical anthropology. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and a Berlin Prize in 2007 from the American Academy in Berlin. Early life Taussig was born in Sydney to parents of Germans, German and History of the Jews in the Czech Republic, Czech-Jewish ancestry. He completed his secondary education in 1958 at North Sydney Boys High School. He later earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney as well as a PhD in anthropology at the London School of Economics. ''The Devil and Commodity Fetishism'' (1980) ''The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America'' is both a polemic about anthropology and an analysis of a set of seemingly magical beliefs held by rural and urban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoda Afshar
Hoda Afshar (born 1983) is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detention centre run by the Australian government. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions and is held in many permanent collections across Australia. Early life, education and early career Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1983. She earned a bachelor's degree in fine art (photography) at the Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran, and began her career as a photographer in 2005. She moved to Australia in 2007, and completed her PhD in creative arts at Curtin University in 2019, with the subject of her thesis being "images of Islamic female identity". Career Her first project, in 2005, was a series of black and white photographs documenting Tehran's underground parties called ''Scene'', but she could not show them in public. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (''Tursiops aduncus'') is a species of bottlenose dolphin. This dolphin grows to long, and weighs up to . It lives in the waters around India, northern Australia, South China, the Red Sea, and the eastern coast of Africa. Its back is dark grey and its belly is lighter grey or nearly white with grey spots. The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin is generally smaller than the common bottlenose dolphin, has a proportionately longer rostrum, and has spots on its belly and lower sides. It also has more teeth than the common bottlenose dolphin — 23 to 29 teeth on each side of each jaw compared to 21 to 24 for the common bottlenose dolphin. Much of the old scientific data in the field combine data about the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and the common bottlenose dolphin into a single group, making it effectively useless in determining the structural differences between the two species. The IUCN lists the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin as "nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lighthouses In Iran ...
This is a list of lighthouses in Iran. Retrieved 2 October 2016 Lighthouses See also * Lists of lighthouses References External links * {{Asia topic, List of lighthouses in Iran Lighthouses Lighthouses A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays. However, the term "shark" has also been used to refer to all extinct members of Chondrichthyes with a shark-like morphology, such as hybodonts and xenacanths. The oldest modern sharks are known from the Early Jurassic. They range in size from the small dwarf lanternshark (''Etmopterus perryi''), a deep sea species that is only in length, to the whale shark (''Rhincodon typus''), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately in length. Sharks are found in all seas and are common to depths up to . They generally do not live in freshwater, although there are a few known exceptions, such as the bull shark and the river shark, which can be found in both seawater and fresh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
