Elphinstone Inlet

Topographic maps of the Elphinstone Inlet and Malcolm's Inlet

The Elphinstone Inlet, or Khor ash Sham (Arabic: خور الشم), is an inlet in the Musandam Peninsula of Oman. It was named for the-then Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone, by the British survey team that mapped it in 1820.

The inlet is accessed only by the Persian Gulf. It is visited by tourists on dhows from Khasab, the main town in Musandam. It is described as a fjord, but it is not a true fjord, and was formed by the subduction of the Arabian tectonic plate beneath the Eurasian plate.

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