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.

Pharaoh's Island (Arabic: جَزِيْرَةُ فِرعَون Jazīratu Firʽawn), whose current popular name is Coral Island, 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. The island holds the ruins of a medieval fortress, officially known as Saladin's Castle.

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