Pharaoh's Island

This article is about the island in Egypt. For the island in the River Thames, see Pharaoh's Island, River Thames.
Not to be confused with the Faroe Islands.
Medieval Citadel on Pharaoh's Island

Pharaoh's Island (Arabic: جَزِيْرَةُ فِرعَون Jazīratu Firʽawn), whose current popular name is Coral Island,[1] is a small island in the northern Gulf of Aqaba some 250 metres (820 ft) east off the shore of Egypt's eastern Sinai Peninsula. Some scholars identify this island port with biblical Ezion-Geber.[2]

  1. ^ Carayon, Nicolas (2008). Les ports phéniciens et puniques: Géomorphologie et infrastructures [Phoenician and Punic harbours: geomorphology and infrastructures] (PDF) (Thesis). PhD thesis in Sciences of Antiquity–Archaeology (in French). Strasbourg: Marc Bloch University. pp. 86–87. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. ^ Flinder, Alexander (July–August 1989). "Is This Solomon's Seaport?". Biblical Archaeology Review. 15 (4). Biblical Archaeology Society. Retrieved 28 September 2021 – via bible.ca.