Duqm
Duqm
ٱلدُّقْم (in Arabic) | |
|---|---|
  Duqm Location in Oman | |
| Coordinates: 19°39′42″N 57°42′17″E / 19.66167°N 57.70472°E | |
| Country |  Oman |
| Region | Al Wusta Region (Oman) |
| Wilayat | Duqm |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (UTC+04:00) |
Duqm (Arabic: ٱلدُّقْم, romanized: Ad-Duqm) is a port town on the Arabian Sea in central-eastern Oman. As of 2010,[needs update] the population was 11,200.[1]
History
Duqm was a small fishing settlement of the Janubah tribe on the coast of southern Oman,[1] when a party of soldiers of the Muscat and Oman Field Force and geologists of Petroleum Development Oman landed in February 1954 to begin the modern oil exploration of central Oman.[2][3] Today it is an industrial oil town.
Duqm Fishing Port, located in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD), is the largest multi-purpose fishing port in the Sultanate of Oman, which lay out in an area of (600 hectares) and a depth of (10 m).[4][third-party source needed] Construction was completed in 2021.[5] The main breakwater is 2.2 km long, the secondary breakwater is 1.1 km long and the total lengths of the Jetties are around 1.2 km long.
Transportation
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Duqm Airport was opened in 2014 and services flights to the nation's capital Muscat.
Climate
| Climate data for Duqm | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 26.8 (80.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
30.4 (86.7) |
34.3 (93.7) |
36.2 (97.2) |
36.3 (97.3) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.4 (90.3) |
32.5 (90.5) |
32.7 (90.9) |
30.5 (86.9) |
27.6 (81.7) |
31.7 (89.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.6 (63.7) |
18.4 (65.1) |
20.8 (69.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
24.5 (76.1) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.7 (74.7) |
22.5 (72.5) |
20.6 (69.1) |
18.8 (65.8) |
22.3 (72.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2 (0.1) |
5 (0.2) |
7 (0.3) |
10 (0.4) |
0 (0) |
3 (0.1) |
1 (0.0) |
4 (0.2) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.0) |
1 (0.0) |
2 (0.1) |
36 (1.4) |
| Source: Climate-data.org | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ a b The Report. Oxford Business Group. 2013. p. 278. ISBN 978-1-907065-72-9.
- ^ The Journal of Oman Studies. Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman. 1983. pp. 152–7.
- ^ Morton, Michael Quentin (2007), In the Heart of the Desert (In the Heart of the Desert ed.), Aylesford, Kent, United Kingdom: Green Mountain Press (UK) (published May 2006), ISBN 978-0-9552212-0-0, 095522120X, archived from the original on 2018-06-03, retrieved 2011-06-27
- ^ "Duqm Fishing Port". The Special Economic Zone at Duqm. 20 January 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Construction of Oman's largest fishing port completed in Duqm". Muscat Daily. 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2022-02-13.