Elephants Back Lighthouse
Elephants Back Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Tawahi, Aden Governorate. Elephants Back Lighthouse is situated nearby to Gold Mohur Hotel, as well as near the suburb Crater.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gold Mohur Hotel.
Gold Mohur Hotel
Hotel
The Gold Mohur Hotel is a resort hotel on Aden, Yemen. On 29 December 1992, Al Qaeda conducted its first known terrorist attack in Aden, bombing the Gold Mohur Hotel, where U.S. servicemen were known to have been staying en route to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. Gold Mohur Hotel is situated 560 metres northeast of Elephants Back Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aden and Crater.
Aden
Photo: T3n60, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aden is a city in the Yemeni Coastal Plains, on the Gulf of Aden at the southern end of the Red Sea.
Crater
Suburb
Photo: Haimasoph, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crater, also Kraytar, is a district of the Aden Governorate, Yemen. Its official name is Seera. It is situated in a crater of an ancient volcano which forms the Shamsan Mountains. As of 2003, the district had a population of 76,723 people. Crater is situated 6 km east of Elephants Back Lighthouse.
Elephants Back Lighthouse
- Type: Lighthouse
- Also known as: “Gold Mohur Lighthouse” and “Gold Mohur Lighthouse, Gold Mohur Lighthouse”
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Tawahi, Aden Governorate, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
12.76472° or 12° 45′ 53″ northLongitude
44.98778° or 44° 59′ 16″ eastElevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
7H46QX7Q+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1218233391OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
415188
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Elephants Back Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منارة المهر الذهبي”
- French: “Gold Mohur Lighthouse”
- German: “Gold Mohur Lighthouse”
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