| Strait of Hormuz qn 14:36 - Mar 3 with 781 views | bluelagos |
Anyone got any knowledge as to why the end point of land is part of Oman and not the UAE? Completely detached from the rest of Oman from the map I just looked at... [Post edited 3 Mar 14:40]
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| Strait of Hormuz qn on 14:56 - Mar 3 with 683 views | Guthrum |
Modern borders created from what had been a patchwork of minor emirates. Which likely had ill-defined boundaries in an era before the discovery of oil in the 1930s turned the Arabian Peninsula from an obscure backwater to a region of vital importance. |  |
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| Strait of Hormuz qn on 15:33 - Mar 3 with 584 views | Kropotkin123 |
The short answer is because different tribes, settlements, people favoured different leaders. The current borders were agreed in (looks up) the 80s and 90s and formalised in (looks up) 2002.
Depends how far back you want to go for reasons. There used to be the Kingdom of Hormuz, stretching from it's power base in Hormuz across the coast to the modern coast of Oman. So the geography, power-bases and fragmentation of the area looked very different. The Portuguese took it over, vassalizing it. From the fallout you have different colonial agreements, and as above, you have 100s of years of history of different people's getting favoured (or not) by different groups/leaders, etc.
The weird thing for me looking at the map is not why Oman have that, but why the people's between there and the main part of the land have chosen UAE and not Oman. Or why Hormuz island ended up in the hands of Iran and not as an independent nation centred around maritime trade.
There is also a weird donut in that area. I've never attempted to understand it. But is looks amusing. |  |
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| Strait of Hormuz qn on 15:36 - Mar 3 with 567 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Strait of Hormuz qn on 14:56 - Mar 3 by Guthrum |
Modern borders created from what had been a patchwork of minor emirates. Which likely had ill-defined boundaries in an era before the discovery of oil in the 1930s turned the Arabian Peninsula from an obscure backwater to a region of vital importance. |
While true within that context, at that time, it was a fragmented land long before then and wasn't always obscure. | |
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| Strait of Hormuz qn on 16:22 - Mar 3 with 475 views | EdwardStone |
I spent a few years doing contract work in Oman, including a brief spell in Khasab which is the principle settlement on the Musandam peninsular....the pointy bit, as you called it.
This is how it was explained to me...
In the 1940s the Emirs of the 7 (?) Emirates that form UAE split away from the main part of Oman because they were fed up with the old Sultan who spent 100% of his time sunning his buns in Salalah right in the very south of Oman.... by many accounts the old fella was bone idle and not a great ruler
Old boy was deposed by his son, Sultan Qaboos, in a British backed bloodless coup but couldn't convince the rebel Emirs to return to the fold
The Emir of Musandam had decided to stay with Oman and didn't join in the rebellion and so the pointy bit remains a part of Oman
However, Oman has never fully accepted the divorce and still refuses to recognise UAE as a seperate entity which leads to all manner of interesting and unusual difficulties with borders, paperwork etc |  | | |
| Strait of Hormuz qn on 16:38 - Mar 3 with 437 views | Crawfordsboot |
Oman has enclaves in the UAE—specifically the territory of Madha—due to 1930s-1940s tribal allegiances, where residents chose to pledge loyalty to the Sultan of Oman rather than local sheikhdoms that later formed the UAE. These borders were solidified in 1969 to respect local sovereignty and tribal ties.
Boom boom!
Others got in before me [Post edited 3 Mar 16:42]
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| Strait of Hormuz qn on 17:11 - Mar 3 with 358 views | Meadowlark |
Back in the 80s I was working on a job off the coast of Iran. We sailed from Dubai, but when we finished we came ashore at Fujairah, and drove back to Dubai through the desert. I don't remember any customs stops, but presumably we went through Oman to reach Dubai.
Dubai was known to us as Dubai Creek back then. |  | | |
| Strait of Hormuz qn on 23:06 - Mar 3 with 198 views | bluelagos |
| Strait of Hormuz qn on 17:11 - Mar 3 by Meadowlark |
Back in the 80s I was working on a job off the coast of Iran. We sailed from Dubai, but when we finished we came ashore at Fujairah, and drove back to Dubai through the desert. I don't remember any customs stops, but presumably we went through Oman to reach Dubai.
Dubai was known to us as Dubai Creek back then. |
Dubai creek, that's basically Deira today? Mentioned it on another post, quaint old port with lovely looking boats when I visited (in 2011) | |
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