Bukkur
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Bukkur (Sindhi: بڪھر ) is an island located in Rohri, Sukkur District, Pakistan. Named Bakar(Dawn) by the pious Sayed Muhammad Maki in the seventh century of Hijri, this island is a limestone rock, oval in shape, 800 yards long by 300 wide, and about twenty-five feet in height. According to the Superintendent of Land Records and Registration, Sindh, in 1912, the area covering Bukkur island was 255,292 sq. yards, or forty-nine acres
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