'Persia Intelligence Report. May, 1946' [‎4r] (7/80)

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(A) COAST
PART V
(A) COAST
(1) Distances
Sea Distances
Bushire to London via Capetown .. ... .. .. 10,857
Bushire to Longships via Suez .. .. .. .. 6,103
Distances from other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ports to United Kingdom ports are not given
so closely to the above.
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Bandar Shapur to Bushire .. .. .. .. .. 190
Bandar Shapur to Lingeh .. .. .. 493
Bandar Shapur to Bandar Abbas .. .. .. .. 593
Bandar Shapur to Jask .. ... .. .. .. 763
Bandar Shapur to Karachi .. .. .. .. .. 1,278
Bushire to Basra .. • .. .. .. .. . • 197
Caspian Sea
Pahlevi to Naushah .. .. .. .. .. .. 140
Pahlevi to Bandar Shah .. .. .. .. .. 290
Pahlevi to Krasnovodsk .. .. .. .. .. 520
Pahlevi to Guriev .. .. .. .. .. •. 1,090
Pahlevi to Astrakhan .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,590
Pahlevi to Baku .. .. .. .. .. .. 205
Pahlevi to Astrakhan .. * .. .. .. 727
Naushah to Baku .. .. .. .. .. . • 270
Bandar Shah to Baku .. .. .. .. .. •. 330
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(2) Coast Report
[a) General Description of Coast
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
General.—Persia, has an area of 628,000 square miles. It is bounded on the north by Russia
and the Caspian Sea, on the west by Turkey and Iraq, on the east by Afghanistan and Baluchistan,
and the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Arabian Sea. Persia has therefore two sea-boards, of which
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. is by far the more important.
Notwithstanding her sea frontiers, Persia has few natural facilities for maritime traffic. The
southern frontier, which is formed by the north coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabian Sea, as far as
Baluchistan, has no natural harbours and few sheltered anchorages. The principal Gulf ports are
Abadan, Khorramshahr, Bandar Shapur, Bushire, Lingeh and Bandar Abbas.
The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Gulf of Oman lie between the parallels of 22° and 30° N. and the meridians
of 48° and 62° E. They are bounded on the south and south-west by the coastal districts of Arabia,
at the head of the Gulf by Irak and on the north-west by the coastal region of south-west Persia.
The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. proper extends in a south-easterly direction for 460 miles from the mouth of
the Shatt-al-Arab to the coast of the promontory of Oman—that great projection of the Arabian coast
of which the point nearly blocks the entrance of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and of which the base is a line running
from Abu Dhabi village to the Baraimi oasis, and thence to Sohar. Here the entrance to the Gulf
narrows through the Straits 'of Hormuz to a width of 29 miles. The greatest width of the Gulf is
200 miles, narrowest at the Strait of Hormuz, 50 miles, and the head is 140 miles across.
The Gulf of Oman may be said to be an arm of the Indian Ocean or Arabian Sea, which forms
the approach to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. proper. The outer limit may be taken as a line joining Gwatar in
Persian Makran to Ras-al-Hadd on the Arabian coast and at its inner end it joins the Straits of Hormuz.
The coastal regions of the Gulf fall actually into three groups :—
(i) At the head of the Gulf proper the coast of the alluvial plain of Iraq and Arabistan, and a
part of Behbehan from the Khor Zobeir in the west to a point near Bandar Dilam in
the east, and the districts inland as far as Khorramshahr and Ahwaz. This includes
territory along the lower Shatt-al-Arab in the Persian province of S. Arabistan.
(ii) On the Persian side the narrow coastal plain which lies between the shores of the Gulf and
the main maritime range of the mountains from Bandar Dilam on the north to the frontier
of Baluchistan at Gwatar, together with the mountainous hinterland forming the south
side of the Tramian plateau. These comprise the maritime districts of the Persian province
of Ears and Laristan, and the coastal district of the province of Persian Makran.
(iii) On the Arabian side, the region which adjoins the south and south-west shores of the Gulf
proper from the Khor-Zobeir on the north as far as the entrance at Cape Musandam,
and thence along the projecting butt of the Arabian continent as far as Ras-al-Hadd. It
includes Koweit, Hasa, Qatr, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and a part of the sultanate of Oman.