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Sir Abu Nu’ayr
Sir Abu Nu’ayr (United Arab Emirates)
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| Location | Persian Gulf |
| Length | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
| Width | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 62 m (203 ft) |
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| Emirate | Sharjah |
Sir Abu Nu’ayr is an island in the Persian Gulf. It lies roughly 80 kilometers north of Abu Dhabi city, 104 kilometers SSE of Abu Musa. It is claimed by the Emirate of Sharjah, one of the seven United Arab Emirates.
Sir Abu Nu’ayr is almost perfectly round at a diameter of four kilometers, with a one kilometer long extension at its southeast end, making the shape of the whole island appear as a drop.
Sir Abu Nu’ayr is a salt-piercement structure formed by the movement of Cambrian (Hormuz) salt. Salt deposited of Cambrian age has moved progressively upward, puncturing through the younger overlying strata to create a salt dome structure. Surface expressions are composed of evaporites rocks, plus igneous rocks and quartzitic sandstone.
Sharjah has a small harbor and an airfield, both located at the island's southeast end.
Crescent Petroleum, is the concession holder of the Sir Abu Nu’ayr area.[1] The acreage is flanked to the NNE by Dubai’s Fateh Oil Field complex, to the north by the Sirri Island oil field of Iran and to the west by the prolific oil and gas fields of Abu Dhabi.