El Nabatat Island
El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt. It is less than a kilometer long and its width is less than ½ a kilometer. The Aswan Botanical Garden is located on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the Nile River at Aswan, Egypt
- Also known as: “Aswan Botanical Garden”, “Geziret el Malik”, “Jazirat al Malik”, “Kitchener’s Island”, and “جزيرة كيتشنر”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elephantine and Qubbet el-Hawa.
Elephantine
Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".
Qubbet el-Hawa
Hill
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qubbet el-Hawa or "Dome of the Wind" is a site on the western bank of the Nile, opposite Aswan, that serves as the resting place of ancient nobles and priests from the Old and Middle Kingdoms of ancient Egypt.
Aswan Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aswan and Shellal.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire. Shellal is situated 5 km south of El Nabatat Island.
El Nabatat Island
- Categories: river island, tourism, recreation area, tourist attraction, garden, locality, and landform
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.09377° or 24° 5′ 38″ northLongitude
32.88703° or 32° 53′ 13″ eastElevation
131 metres (430 feet)Open location code
7GPJ3VVP+GROpenStreetMap ID
way 5772319OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=gardenOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“El Nabatat Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحديقة النباتية بأسوان”
- Arabic: “جزيرة النباتات”
- Catalan: “illa Kitchener”
- Catalan: “Illa Kitchener”
- Catalan: “Kitchener (illa)”
- Catalan: “Kitchener(illa)”
- Cebuano: “Jazīrat al Malik”
- Dutch: “Kitchener-eiland”
- Dutch: “Kitchener’s Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة كتشنر”
- French: “Ile Kitchener”
- French: “île Kitchener”
- French: “Île Kitchener”
- German: “Kitchener-Insel”
- Greek: “Νήσος Κίτσενερ”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin El Nabatat”
- Hebrew: “גזירת א-נבאתאת”
- Igbo: “Agwaetiti Kitchener”
- Italian: “isola di Kitchener”
- Italian: “Isola di Kitchener”
- Japanese: “キッチナー島”
- Japanese: “ナバータート島”
- Persian: “جزیره گیاهان”
- Polish: “Dżazirat an-Nabatat”
- Polish: “Wyspa Kitchenera”
- Russian: “Эль-Набатат”
- Spanish: “Isla Kitchener”
- Swedish: “Jazīrat al Malik”
- Turkish: “Kitchener Adası”
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