Shadwan (Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة شدوان) is a barren rocky island 30 miles southwest of the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula and 20 miles northeast of El Gouna.

On 31 March 1969 the island was the site of an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the surface-wave magnitude scale.

On 9 April 1996 a station of the Hurghada Seismological Network began operating on the island with the aim of gaining information on the seismotectonics of the southern Gulf of Suez region.

[2] During the War of Attrition between Israel and Egypt, the island was fortified and held by Egyptian troops.

On 22 January 1970, it was the site of Operation Rhodes, a heliborne assault by Israeli troops which occupied the island for 36 hours.