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Background and claim to Hawar islands, 1936-1942 231

The Hawar Islands.

1. This group of islando consists of one
large island, approximately 11 miles long and at

the widest point about 2 miles wide with an area
of about 17 square miles, and a number of smaller
islands and rocky islets which are adjacent to

Hawar island. A list of them, with the numbers
of the beacons on each of them, is attached. The
beacons are stone pillars about six feet high sur­
mounted by iron poles on the tops of which oil
drums are fixed, The drums are painted red and

white, the Bahrain colours, Hawar moans ,f a young
oamel" and the island is locally known as the
offspring of Bahrain island which it rosembles •
somewhat in shape.

2. On Hawar island there are two villages
one at the north end and one at the south end.
In each village there are about twenty stone houses,

nt various places on the island there are water
cisterns, some are cut in the rook and others are

built of stone and gutch in the oentre of natural
depressions. These cisterns are of considerable
age but in most oases it is known by whom they
were built, There are three or four cemeteries
in the island one is close to an area which appears

to have been cultivated at one time as there is a
group of date palms still existing. The oisterns,
when rainfall is normal, provide u water supply
. for the people of Hawar but if the rainfall is

/ small water is brought in boats from Bahrain, not
from Matter,
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