Английская Википедия:Bab Iskender

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The Bab Iskender (Шаблон:Lang-ar Iskander's Strait, also variously known as the Eastern strait, the small strait, the narrow pass or the small pass, is the eastern section of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula from Ras Siyyan, Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. The strait is Шаблон:Convert wide and Шаблон:Convert deep. The Yemeni island of Perim divides the strait into two channels, Bab Iskender and Dact-el-Mayun respectively.[1]

The western section of the straits, Dact-el-Mayun, (also known as the Western strait, the large strait, the large pass or the wide pass) has a width of about Шаблон:Convert and a depth of Шаблон:Convert.[1] The straits are about Шаблон:Convert wide in total.

Near the African coast lies a group of smaller islands known as the Seven Brothers.

References

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Шаблон:Yemen-geo-stub Шаблон:Djibouti-geo-stub

  1. 1,0 1,1 William James Lloyd Wharton, John Phillips (1900), The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot page 230. Great Britain Hydrographic Office.