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Definition of Gulf of Akaba
1. Noun. A northeastern arm of the Red Sea; between the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) and Saudi Arabia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulf Of Akaba
Literary usage of Gulf of Akaba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"57 in the Red Sea itself, 7 in the Gulf of Suez, and 39 in the Gulf of Akaba ;
and has thus provided sufficient material for the construction of the ..."
2. Sinai and Palestine, in Connection with Their History by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1905)
"It is between those two gulfs, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of 'Akaba, that the
Peninsula of Sinai lies. ^e two From them it derives its contact with the ..."
3. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot by William James Lloyd Wharton, John Phillips, Great Britain Hydrographic Office (1900)
"From the gulf of Akaba to the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, a distance of 1000 miles,
the Arabian mountains are conspicuous throughout, presenting peaked summits ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... from Rafa to Ras Mahommed (the most southern point of the Sinai peninsula),
which would have left the whole of the gulf of Akaba in Turkish territory. ..."
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