Khārk
Kharg Island, also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf.
Kharg Island, also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The island is 25 kilometres (16 mi) off the coast of Iran and 660 kilometres (410 mi) northwest of the Strait of Hormuz. Administered by the adjacent coastal Bushehr Province, Kharg Island provides a sea port for the export of up to 90% of Iran's oil products, as well as supplying storage for up to 30 million barrels of oil.
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Worth seeing in and around Khārk
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Fort Mosselstein
Fort Mosselstein was a fortification of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie on the Iranian island Kharg. At the time, Kharg was called Kareek or Kareck.
2.9 km · castle in Bushehr Province, Iran · Wikipedia
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Getting to Khārk
- Airports
- Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib (SYZ), 223 km · Kuwait (KWI), 227 km · Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 236 km
- Stations
- Khark Airport, 2.1 km
- Shiraz → KhārkTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Abadan → KhārkTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ahvaz → KhārkTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Khārk
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Khārk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Khārk
- Khargcity in Bushehr Province, Iran2.7 km
- Kharg Districtdistrict in Iran1.5 km