Gulf of Oman

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The northwest arm of the Arabian Sea, measuring 350 miles (560 km) in length.

The Gulf of Oman forms the only entrance to the Persian Gulf from the Indian Ocean. It is bounded by Iran on the north, Oman on the south, and the United Arab Emirates on the west. The gulf is relatively shallow because of its origin as a fissure in the mountain spine now divided between Iran and Oman. Two hundred miles (320 km) wide at its outer limit, it narrows to 35 miles (56 km) at the Strait of Hormuz. Roughly one-third of the world's oil is exported via the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. Iran's Revolutionary Guards attacked oil tankers in the waterway during the Iran - Iraq War but were never able to disrupt shipping. Environmental concerns have grown in recent years because of an increase in oil spills and the emptying of ballast by oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman before entering the strait.

Bibliography

Lorimer, J. G. "Oman (Promontory and Gulf of)." In Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia, Vol. 2B: Geographical and Statistical. Calcutta, 1908 - 1915. Reprint, Farnsborough: Gregg, 1970.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Indian Ocean Atlas. Washington, DC, 1976.

— J. E. PETERSON

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an arm of the Arabian Sea connecting it with the Persian Gulf

Gulf of Oman

Persian Sea is an alternative name for the Gulf of Oman, as shown in this 18th century map by Eman Bowen.

The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman (Arabic: خليج عُمان‎ - Ḫalīdj ʾUmān; alternatively known as خليج مکران - Ḫalīdj Makrān, Gulf of Makran; in Persian also known as دریای ایران - Daryā-e Īrān, Iranian Sea, or دریای فارس - Daryā-e Fārs, Persian Sea) is a strait (and not an actual gulf) that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf. It is generally included as a branch of the Persian Gulf, not as an arm of the Arabian Sea. On the north coast is Pakistan and Iran (Persia). On the south coast are Oman in the east, and the United Arab Emirates for a short distance in the west.

Further literature

• "The Book of Duarte Barbosa" by Duarte Barbosa, Mansel Longworth Dames. 1989. p.79. ISBN 81-206-0451-2
• "The Natural History of Pliny". by Pliny, Henry Thomas Riley, John Bostock. 1855. p.117
• "The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf" by Samuel Barrett Miles - 1966. p.148
• "The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner". by Daniel Defoe. 1895. p.279
• "The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind". by Herbert George Well. 1920. p.379.
• "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck. 1910. p.242

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