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UHA.—Small sandy islet near the tip of the reef which runs south-east
from Failaka island. It is nearly 3 miles from the south-east corner of Failaka.
UREPLTAN.—Name, according to Pelly, of a route from Koweit to
Eiadh. It passes between Legait and the Gulf.
WAFRA.—Place shown in Kiepert's Map, nearly 100 miles west by south
of Koweit, on route between Basra and Zulfab. I d some particulars it corres
ponds with Hafr above.
WARBA.—Island lying in mid-channel between north end of Bubiyan
Island and the main. Around it meet the Khor Abdullah from the south-east,
Khor-as Sabiya from the south, and Khor Umm Kasr from the north-west.
The is 1 a«.d is 8 miles long east and west and shaped like a orescent with its
concavity to the south. Its greatest breadth is over 2 miles. Depth of channel
between it and mainland on north is 4 to 6 fathoms. Channel between it and
mainland on west is described as a <e boat-passage." Ko information as to
southern channel separating it from Bubiyan Island, except in Admiralty Chart
No. 2374-2837-6, which indicates soundings of 4 to 10 fathoms.
WARFRA or WUBREH.—Locality between the Karain Khor and the
Delaa-ed-Delaa. Pelly calls it indifferently Warfra and Wubreh.l " Map of Parts
of Arabia and Persia " gives Wabrah. Pelly says this halting place is quite
uninhabited and derives its name from the lands of Wubreh which lie a little
to the eastward.
WUBREH.—-See Warfra above.
ZOWAR,—See under Failaka Island.
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