Al-Hallaniyah

Al Hallaniyah (Arabic: الحلانية) is the largest and most populated of the Khuriya Muriya Islands, which belong to Oman.

Ras al Hallaniyah, the summit and northern headland of the island, is a bold projecting bluff, 501 metres (1,644 ft) high.

[1] During the Charif, from mid-May to mid-September, cold water rich of nutrients from great depths reaches the surface, bringing with it an abundance of fish.

In early 2016, the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology released an interim report documenting the discovery and subsequent excavation of a shipwreck believed to be the Portuguese vessel Esmerelda.

Although little remained of the vessel itself due to the shallow waters in which it sank, an excavation from 2013 to 2015 discovered 2,800 artifacts including an extremely rare índio silver coin minted for trade with India, a dozen gold coins, a copper alloy ship's bell, stone cannonballs, and part of what is believed to be an astrolabe.