Quoin Island (Persian Gulf)

جزیره سلامه (خلیج فارس)

(Wikipedia) - Quoin Island (Oman) (also As Salamah Island and Great Quoin Island) is the traditional "way point" used by ships to define the entrance or exit from the Persian Gulf. Once a ship is declaired a position of "Passed Quoin Inbound" the insurance rates for the ship will increase. Quoin Island is at 28.31N. 56.31E. Quoin Island Oman, is not to be confused with Quoin Island Yemen, which is in the Red Sea and also has a lighthouse, or Quoin Island in the Torres Strait of Australia, neither of which are way points. Quoin Island (Persian Gulf)

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Quoin Island (Oman) (also As Salamah Island and Great Quoin Island) is the traditional "way point" used by ships to define the entrance or exit from the Persian Gulf. Once a ship is declaired a position of "Passed Quoin Inbound" the insurance rates for the ship will increase. Quoin Island is at 28.31N. 56.31E.

Quoin Island Oman, is not to be confused with Quoin Island Yemen, which is in the Red Sea and also has a lighthouse, or Quoin Island in the Torres Strait of Australia, neither of which are way points.

[edit] External links

• http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=quoin%20island%20gulf&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Oman". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/omn.htm. 

Coordinates: 26°30′N 56°31′E / 26.5°N 56.517°E / 26.5; 56.517

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