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    Bubiyan Island (Arabic: جزيرة بوبيان) is the largest island in the Kuwaiti coastal island chain situated in the north-western corner of the Persian Gulf...
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  • Battle of Bubiyan (also known as the Bubiyan Turkey Shoot) was a naval engagement of the Gulf War that occurred in the waters between Bubiyan Island and...
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    (121 mi) of coast. Within its territory are ten islands, two of which, Bubiyan (the largest) and Warbah, are strategically important. Kuwait's most prominent...
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  • which connects Kuwait City with northern Kuwait (including Subiya and Bubiyan Island); and Doha Link, which connects Kuwait City with Doha. It crosses...
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    "Bubiyan (island, Kuwait)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2010. "Structurae [en]: Bubiyan...
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    Agency. 10 April 2015. "Bubiyan (island, Kuwait)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 June 2010. "Structurae [en]: Bubiyan Bridge (1983)". En.structurae...
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    emptying into the Persian Gulf via a channel further to the west. Kuwait's Bubiyan Island is part of the Shatt al-Arab delta. The Karun, a tributary which...
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  • Mubarak Al Kabeer Port is a port in Bubiyan Island, Kuwait. The port is currently under construction. In April 2021, the port's first phase was completed...
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    "guaranteed access to the Persian Gulf through the Kuwaiti islands of Bubiyan and Warbah", and allowed Iraq to "gain full control of the Rumaila oil...
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    some 7,000 square kilometres (2700 sq. mi.). It included Warbah Island, Bubiyan Island, the area around Abdali, Raudhatain oil field, Sabriya oil field...
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    Tigris rivers, makes up a portion of the Iran–Iraq border, with Kuwait's Bubiyan Island being part of its delta. Since the 1960s and in the 1970s, when...
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    Amarah and a portion of southwestern Iran and northern Kuwait (particularly Bubiyan Island). Historically the marshlands, mainly composed of the separate but...
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    Gulf include Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Kish administered by Iran, Bubiyan administered by Kuwait, Tarout administered by Saudi Arabia, and Dalma...
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  • Several Tigris–Euphrates confluences form parts of the Kuwait–Iraq border. Bubiyan Island is part of the Shatt al-Arab delta. Kuwait is partially part of...
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  • mosque in the Netherlands Mobarak port, project under construction in Bubiyan Island, Kuwait Molly & Mobarak, 2003 Australian documentary directed by...
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  • completed (4 berths). As part of Mubarak Al Kabeer Port's development, Bubiyan Island will contain power plants and substations. A 5,000-megawatt power...
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    destruction of almost the entire Iraqi Navy in the Battle of Bubiyan (also known as the Battle of the Bubiyan Channel).[citation needed] Additionally, Royal Navy...
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    the northern and western parts of Kuwait, several islands (among them Bubiyan Island), and also western districts of Kuwait City. It also contains most...
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    (110 yd) east of the Kuwaiti mainland, 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of Bubiyan Island, and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of the Iraqi mainland. It is roughly...
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    "Outlaw Hunter" vectored in strike elements which attacked the flotilla near Bubiyan Island, destroying 11 vessels and damaging scores more. During Desert Shield...
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    tankers in 1984 and fired weapons at Kuwaiti security personnel stationed on Bubiyan island in 1988. During the Iran–Iraq War, Kuwait functioned as Iraq's major...
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  • Shidvar Island Shif Island Sirri Island Tahmadu Island (Jabrin) Auhah Island Bubiyan Island Failaka Island Kubbar Island Miskan Island Qaruh Island Umm al Maradim...
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    side of the Shatt al-Arab, and Kuwait to the southwest, opposite from Bubiyan Island and Warbah Island, near the Iraqi city of Umm Qasr. Al-Faw, the...
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    Inhabited islands Failaka Shuwaikh Umm al Maradim Umm an Namil Uninhabited islands Auhah Bubiyan Kubbar Miskan Qaruh Warbah Islands of Kuwait at commons...
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  • completed (4 berths). As part of Mubarak Al Kabeer Port's development, Bubiyan Island will contain power plants and substations. A 5,000-megawatt power...
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    Hochstraße Elbmarsch [de] 4,258 13,970 (Viaduct) 1974 Highway Germany Bubiyan Island Railway Bridge 4,245 13,927 (Viaduct) 2011 Rail Kuwait Commodore...
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    Ad-Dawrah Attack on Ras Tanura Battle of Qurah and Umm al Maradim Battle of Bubiyan Battle of Khafji Battle of Wadi al-Batin Highway of Death Battle of 73...
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  • uninhabited island in the Arabian Gulf off Kuwait. It is to the south of Bubiyan Island. It is about 1.2 kilometers long and 800 meters wide (area about...
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  • Sassanid religion's tower of silence was discovered in northern Akkaz. In Bubiyan, there is archaeological evidence of Sassanian periods of human presence...
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    seven Syrian ships were sunk, with zero Israeli losses. At the Battle of Bubiyan in 1991 Iraqi missile boats were destroyed by British air-to-surface missiles...
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