This southern coastal route past the rough country in the southern Arabian peninsula Yemen and Oman today was significant, and the Egyptian Pharaohs built several shallow canals to service the trade, one more or less along the route of today's Suez canal, and another from the Red Sea to the Nile River, both shallow works that were swallowed up by huge sand storms in antiquity.
Later the kingdom of Axum arose in Ethiopia to rule a mercantile empire rooted in the trade with Europe via Alexandria. It is located between the Karachi towns of Kiamari and Saddar, close to the main business district and several industrial areas. The geographic position of the port places it in close proximity to major shipping routes such as the Strait of Hormuz. The history of the port is intertwined with that of the city of Karachi. It warns sailors about whirlpools and advises them to seek safety in "Kaurashi" harbour if they found themselves drifting dangerously.
The gate facing the sea was called "Kharadar" salt gate , and the gate facing the Lyari River was called "Mithadar" sweet gate. The modern neighbourhoods around the location of the gates are called Mithadar and Kharadar. Surrounded by mangrove swamps to the east, the sea to the southwest, and the Lyari River to the north, the town was well defended and engaged in a profitable trade with Muscat and Bahrain.
The Gwadar Port is a warm-water, deep-sea port situated at Gwadar in Balochistan, Pakistan at the apex of the Arabian Sea and at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, about km west of Karachi and approximately 75 km 47 mi east of Pakistan's border with Iran.
The port is located on the eastern bay of a natural hammerhead-shaped peninsula jutting out into the Arabian Sea from the coastline. Port of Salalah in Salalah, Oman is also a major port in the area. From a modest start in , the Omani container transhipment port has achieved consistent growth.
The Port of Salalah is a key container transhipment hub on the Arabian Sea and is often used as the first port of call for vessels whose crew have just been released from the clutches of Somali pirates following ransom payments for withheld vessels and crew. The port also plays host as a supply base for the visiting warships that provide protective escorts for merchant shipping in the sea lanes.
From that dual role has emerged another, one as an intelligence network — both military and civilian — to exchange information on possible pirate sightings and near misses. Also, the International Task Force often uses the port as a base. There is a significant number of warships of all nations coming in and out of the port, which makes it a very safe bubble. The port handled just under 3. Scientists from WCS, AMNH, and the Environment Society of Oman have found that humpback whales inhabiting the Arabian Sea are the most genetically distinct humpback whales in the world and may be the most isolated whale population on earth.
The results suggest they have remained separate from other humpback whale populations for perhaps 70, years, extremely unusual in a species famed for long distance migrations. Previous studies on humpback whales, including several published by WCS, have revealed a great deal of population structure among humpback whales of the Northern Hemisphere and many areas of the Southern Hemisphere, particularly on breeding grounds.
At the ocean basin scale, scientists are gaining an understanding of humpback whale gene flow, including in the Southern Indian Ocean. The dynamics and movements of animals in the Arabian Sea, however, are poorly understood. The data were then compared to existing data sets from humpback whales in both the Southern Hemisphere and the North Pacific. All of the sampling was conducted in the Sultanate of Oman, a known hotspot for the animals.
The separation is likely reinforced by breeding cycles that are asynchronous; humpback whales in the Arabian Sea breed on a Northern Hemisphere schedule, whereas the closest whale populations in the Western Indian Ocean below the equator breed during a different season. The genetic study also revealed a comparatively low level of genetic diversity when compared to other humpback populations, as well as the signatures of both distant and recent genetic bottlenecks, events caused by population declines.
The most recent bottleneck may be due to illegal whaling; during two very short periods in and Soviet whalers killed humpback whales in the Arabian Sea 39 of the captured females were also pregnant , a potentially devastating loss for a small population.
Today, the major and most urgent concern for this population is lethal entanglement in fishing gear and ship strikes. We are also seeking to work with international partners to improve conservation of marine mammals in the wider Arabian Sea, including participation in a regional humpback whale conservation initiative. The status of the population is reviewed annually by the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.
In a paper published online October 21 in the journal Endangered Species Research, Peter Corkeron and co-authors suggest a new way to use spatial models with limited data in cetacean conservation planning, using their experience in Oman as an example.
Whale sightings data were collected from small boat surveys off the coast of Oman between and by a team led by Robert Baldwin of the Environment Society of Oman ESO. Surveys were primarily for photo-identification and genetic sampling in areas where the Arabian Sea population of humpback whales were likely to be found, and places that were relatively easy to survey.
These whales are members of the smallest humpback population known to exist, and are the only humpbacks that do not undertake extensive seasonal migrations.
Its distribution includes the waters of Pakistan, India, Iran and Yemen, but there is little or no survey data from these areas. Analysis of photo-identification work and genetic samples conducted by the ESO team has shown that this population is completely isolated from the nearest Indian Ocean population.
Assessing the distribution of humpbacks in three areas off Oman allowed the researchers to make some recommendations about the relative importance of particular areas as habitat for the whales. During the four-year field study, researchers surveyed regularly off the coast of Muscat, during October and November in the Gulf of Masirah, and during February and March off the Dhofar coast.
The authors suggest ways to start conservation planning to lessen impacts on humpback whales in that particular area. Using what data we have for conservation planning can initiate positive steps forward.
This modeling technique uses some sophisticated mathematics to remove some of that bias, making the final model of whales' space use more reliable. And because the technique runs in R, the Open Source statistics language, anyone who understands R can run the same sort of model on their own data, for free.
He hopes to be able to return to Oman to continue the work. Despite the remoteness of the location, Corkeron says much work remains to be done. He agreed that Oman had strict procedures to control environment pollution on land and around ports.
However, he added that it was also necessary to control ships dumping oil outside Omani waters. Kitts registered ship, tilts in the Arabian Sea, close to Mumbai, India. Fourteen crew members were rescued from a cement carrier which sank in the Arabian Sea off Gujarat on Wednesday in stormy weather, an official said here. Almost two weeks have passed since the landfall of Tropical Cyclone Hudhud near Visakhapatnam, and now a new cyclone is likely to form.
Not in Bay of Bengal but in Arabian Sea. Yes, you read it right, it is Arabian Sea! It also hosts tropical cyclones but the frequency of cyclones, including depressions or low pressure regions, in it are fewer compared to those that develop in Bay of Bengal. There have not been many storms in the Arabian Sea since The Cyclone Atlas of India Meteorological Department or IMD reports that between and , nine systems depressions, cyclonic storms, severe cyclonic storms and above formed in the Arabian Sea but only four intensified into cyclonic storms or above.
Only one touched the category of severe cyclonic storm category. On the contrary, 22 systems formed in the Bay of Bengal in the same period, 10 intensified to the strength of at least a cyclonic storm and eight touched the strength of at least severe cyclonic storm.
Present low pressure in Arabian Sea. A low pressure area has formed in the Arabian Sea. According to IMD, it was located at around This system along with a mid level trough elongated low pressure at about 20, feet above the ground running from this system towards Nepal generated a lot of clouding which covered entire Maharashtra, southern Gujarat, much of Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, some parts of Uttar Pradesh, Nepal and Sikkim.
As a result, maximum temperatures must have come down in these areas with rains drizzle to light rains. This low pressure system is finding it hard to organise itself due to the interference from the moderate vertical wind shear which inhibits the development of a low pressure in its vicinity.
Filters 0. The northwest part of the Indian Ocean between Arabia and western India. It has long been an important trade route between India and the West.
The definition of the Arabian Sea is the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, located between Arabia and western India.
It is a body of salt water. It is saltier than some other salt water types.
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