Oshba Island
Oshba Island is an island in Northern State, Sudan. Oshba Island is situated nearby to the village Soleb, as well as near Wawa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soleb and Wawa.
Soleb
Village
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soleb is an ancient town in Nubia, in present-day Sudan. The site is located north of the third cataract of the Nile, on the western side of the Nile. It was discovered and described by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844.
Wawa
Village
Wawa is a town in northern Sudan near the Nile River, located at 20°26′N 30°21′E. The town sits directly across the Nile River from the ancient city of Soleb Pebble tools from the early Stone Age have been found in this area including an early hand axe dating roughly 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago…
Oshba Island
- Type: Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.48333° or 20° 29′ northLongitude
30.31667° or 30° 19′ eastElevation
195 metres (640 feet)Open location code
7GGGF8M8+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 7731572488OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
368711
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In Other Languages
“Oshba Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وشب إسلند”
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