Sabkhat Matti is a dry lake on the border between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
[1] "Sabka" means "salt flat" in Arabic.
In the 1930s, Bedouins told western surveyors that the salt flats were named after someone named "Matti", who had disappeared while trying to cross them.
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