📘 The coast narrows to a hinge

What you’ll learn

1. Read the coast as a portConnect Bandar Abbas's shallow strait, island shelter, engineered harbour, and mountain routes to its role as a port.The city works because water and land routes meet in a narrow, sheltered position.
2. Follow the port's earlier historyTrace how Gombroon became Bandar Abbas through Portuguese, Safavid, and English power in the Strait of Hormuz.The mainland port inherited an island trade route, then became a cosmopolitan Safavid harbour.

Questions this course answers

Grounded in trusted sources

• Encyclopaedia Iranica - Bandar-e Abbas i. The City (shallow Clarence Strait, lack of a natural harbour, inland routes, Gombroon, Safavid port, and the 1964 decision and 1967 opening of the deep-water port)
• Encyclopaedia Iranica - Hormuz ii. Islamic Period (Portuguese control, the 1614 capture of Gamru, and the 1622 Safavid capture of Qeshm and Hormuz with English East India Company naval help)
• NASA Earth Observatory - Qeshm Island, Iran (Strait of Hormuz, Qeshm, Clarence Strait, shallow water, and Hara mangroves)
• Wikimedia Commons file page - ISS047-E-139569 - View of Earth - Strait of Hormuz - Musandam Peninsula - Qeshm - Hara Mangrove tidal structures in Khuran Strait - Persian Gulf - Zagros Mountains (subject and public-domain NASA source)
• Wikimedia Commons file pages - Bandar Abbas.jpg and Strait of Hormuz from 35,000 Feet.jpg (subject and licence details)

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