You mean the Musandam Peninsula, a.k.a. 'Norway of the Middle East'?
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The Musandam Peninsula is a 700-square-mile enclave of Oman at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, separated from the rest of the country by a 45-mile-wide swath of the United Arab Emirates. The Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf define its eastern and northern limits, and 25 miles across the Strait of Hormuz lies Iran. The mountainous core of the Musandam is called the Ru’us al Jibal (the mountain tops) and is often referred to as the “Norway of the Middle East.” This range, the northern terminus of the Al Hajar al Gharbi(Western Hajar Mountains), is slowly being subducted beneath the surface of the Persian Gulf. What’s left above sea level is an intricate maze of rock and water attached to the mainland by a slender, 10-mile-long isthmus. Deep bays and fjords incise the snake-like peninsulas, and in some places the land is nothing more than a knife-edged limestone fin rising straight from the ocean. Toby Foord-Kelcey, author of
UAE Rock Climbs, estimates there may be as much as 300 kilometers of seacliff lining the shoreline of the Musandam Peninsula between the villages of Khasab and Dibba.
The Musandam Peninsula is a 700-square-mile enclave of Oman at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, separated from the rest of the country b...
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