Heisa Island
Heisa Island or el-Heissa is an inhabited basaltic island situated at the former First Cataract of the Nile River in historic Nubia within the Aswan Governorate of southern Egypt.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Philae and Philae Temple.
Philae
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Philae Island was an island near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. Due to the building of the Aswan Low Dam, the island is today submerged.
Philae Temple
Photo: Moh hakem, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt in Africa.
Aswan Dam
Dam
Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built by the British at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km south-southeast of Cairo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nile 1st. Cataract and Shellal.
Nile 1st. Cataract
Locality
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets.
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.
Heisa Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island south of the old Aswan dam
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.013° or 24° 0′ 47″ northLongitude
32.8781° or 32° 52′ 41″ eastOpen location code
7GPJ2V7H+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 2609814496OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandWikidata ID
Q30149368
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Satellite Map
Discover Heisa Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Hungarian—“Heisa Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة هيسا”
- Arabic: “جزيرة هيصة”
- French: “Heisa”
- German: “Gazirat Heisa”
- German: “Heisa”
- German: “Heiṣa”
- German: “Heissa”
- German: “Hesa”
- German: “Insel Heisa”
- Hausa: “Heiss Island”
- Hungarian: “Heisa-sziget”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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