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Jebel Hafeet. Jabal Hafeet[7] (Arabic: جَبَل حَفِيْت, romanized: Jabal Ḥafīt, "Mount Hafeet"; variously transcribed Jabel or Jebal and Hafit – literally "empty mountain") is a mountain in the region of Tawam, on the border of the United Arab Emirates and Oman, which may be considered an outlier of the Hajar Mountains [1][8] in ...
United Arab Emirates topographic map To the south of Jabal Raḩabah (1,543 m), there is a ridge of about 10 km in length, parallel to the coast View towards the Jabal Rams. In the background the city of Rams and the Persian Gulf Coast View from the top of Jabal Naqat Border marker - Oman - UAE View of Jebel Hafeet
The highest peaks are found in the Jebel Akhdar Mountains (in Arabic: الجبل الأخض), mountain massif approximately 80 km (50 mi) long and 32 km (20 mi) wide, belonging to the Hajar Mountains, [1] which covers an area of 1,135 km 2 (438 sq mi) located above 1,500 m (4,900 ft), of which, 410 km 2 (160 sq mi) are located above 2,000 m ...
The Hafit period defines early Bronze Age human settlement in the United Arab Emirates and Oman in the period from 3200 to 2600 B.C. It is named after the distinctive beehive burials first found on Jebel Hafit, a rocky mountain near Al Ain, bordering the Rub Al Khali desert. Hafit period tombs and remains have also been located across the UAE ...
The Oman government has created the Wadi Sareen Reserve and an area of Jebel Qahwan-Jebal Sebtah in the Eastern Hajar, for the protection of Arabian tahr and mountain gazelle. For visitors, there is a road into the mountains from the town of Birkat al-Mawz (on the road to Nizwa from Muscat) and a walking route through Wadi al-Muaydin to the ...
Jebel Jais. Jebel Jais (Arabic: جبل جيس, romanized: Jabal Jays) is a mountain of the North - Western Hajar range in the Musandam Governorate of Oman and also in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. The summit has an elevation of 1,934 m (6,345 ft). [1] The summit is located on the Omani side, but a high point west of this peak is ...
Mount Arafat (Arabic: جَبَل عَرَفَات, romanized: Jabal ʿArafāt, or جَبَل ٱلرَّحْمَة, Jabal ar-Raḥmah, 'Mountain of Mercy') [2] is a granodiorite hill [1] about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Mecca, in the province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. [3] It is approximately 70 m (230 ft) in height, with its highest ...
Al Ain. Al Ain (Arabic: ٱلْعَيْن, al-ʿayn, literally, the spring) [4] is a city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and the seat of the administrative division of the Al Ain Region. The city is bordered to the east by the Omani town of Al-Buraimi. Al Ain is the largest inland city in the Emirates, the fourth-largest city ...