Archives for Geography
Abu Dhabi to North Yemen Overland — April 1982
by Ian and June Harner The choice was eventually made, and two weeks by road to North Yemen triumphed over a three week package tour to Japan. Next followed the…
Al Hair Archaeological Site
Bulletin No. 36 contains a short article on flint finds at Al Hair, north of Hili and just off the Al Ain-Dubai highway. I visited the site with Bish Brown…
Bedouin Youth, Past and Present
(The following is the gist of a talk presented to the ENHG at the end of 1986. -- Ed.) Sheikha Al Maskery's thesis is that UAE Bedouin youth have been…
Development Anomalies in the Bedouin Oases of Al-Liwa
(Dr. Heard-Bey, who studied history at Berlin and Heidelberg, has lived in Abu Dhabi for eleven years. The present article is based on observations made during visits to the Liwa…
The Empty Quarter
On 31st March 1977 at a public meeting held in the Community Hall, (which the ENHG largely organized) Mr. Wilfred Thesiger introduced a showing of the BP film “The Empty…
Extract from Arabia Felix
The Road to Ubar "Look, Sahib," they cried, "There is the road to Ubar!" "Ubar?" I wondered. "It was a great city, our fathers have told us, that existed of…
History of the Buraimi Oasis
by Nick Saines Geologist, Regional Development Committee, Buraimi. Introduction For hundreds, if not thousands, of years the Al Ain – Buraimi area was known as the ‘Buraimi Oasis’. The Buraimi…
Masirah Island
Masirah is an island approximately 40 miles long by 10 miles wide at its maximum point. On plan it is shaped like an hourglass, being five miles wide at its…
Overland to Jordan
by Ian and June Hamer Following a successful overland journey to North Yemen in 1982, we decided to try the easier but no less interesting drive to Jordan and on…
Catfish Spelunking in Mexico
by Shane Linder While up in Mexico last week (Dec 2001) I managed to make a stop at a cenote just outside of Chichen Itza in Yucatan State. A cenote…