Sunken Island of Shash
Sunken Island of Shash is a locality in Aswan Governorate, Egypt. Sunken Island of Shash is situated nearby to the village Nagaa Al-Korour, as well as near the locality Sunken Island of Philae.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 Shellal and Nile 1st. Cataract.
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.
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. Nile 1st. Cataract is situated 6 km south of Sunken Island of Shash.
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.
Sunken Island of Shash
- Type: Locality
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.03156° or 24° 1′ 54″ northLongitude
32.87768° or 32° 52′ 40″ eastOpen location code
7GPJ2VJH+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2613858481OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
“Sunken Island of Shash” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “موقع جزيرة شاش الغارقة”
Localities in the Area
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