Zuqar Island

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Zuqar Island

Native name: Arabic: جزيرة زقر, romanized: jazīra zuqar
NASA Landsat image of the island
Geography
Location	Red Sea
Coordinates	14°01′26″N 42°45′54″E / 14.024°N 42.765°E / 14.024; 42.765
Archipelago	Hanish Islands

Zuqar Island (Arabic: جزيرة زقر, romanized: jazīra zuqar) is an island in the Red Sea that belongs to Yemen. It lies between the coasts of mainland Yemen and Eritrea, near the Bab-el-Mandeb straits which connect the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Despite its proximity to the African continent, Zuqar Island is considered a part of Asia because it sits on the Asian continental shelf. It is appropriately 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi).

The island consists of a shield volcano overlain by basaltic pyroclastic cones and spatter cones which produced youthful-looking pahoehoe lava flows. Several small coastal cones and islets surrounding Zuqar Island were formed by phreatic eruptions.^[1]