Jabal Shams or Jebel Shams () is a mountain located in northeastern
Oman
Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia and the Middle East. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Oman’s coastline ...
north of the town of
Al-Hamra.
It is the highest mountain in Oman, and is part of the
Jebel Akhdar or Jabal Akhdar Mountains,
[https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/air/5/1284/n/55 Persian Gulf and Arabian Coast: mountains or mounds - Ref. AIR 5/1284 - PAGE 55 - The National Archives, London, England] which in turn belongs to the
Hajar range.
The mountain is a popular sightseeing area located from
Muscat
Muscat (, ) is the capital and most populous city in Oman. It is the seat of the Governorate of Muscat. According to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), the population of the Muscat Governorate in 2022 was 1.72 million. ...
.
It is known as Jabal Shams because it is the first place to receive sunrise in Oman due to its high peak.
In the summer, the temperature is around and in the winter it drops to less than . Jabal Shams also hosts
Al Nakhur Canyon which is labeled as the
Grand Canyon
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The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon Nati ...
of
Arabia
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Geographically, the ...
.
Description
The highest point of the mountain is the North Summit, which is occupied by a military base and is a restricted area. The Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman, states the North Summit to be high.
The mountain also has a second summit, the South Summit, which is publicly accessible for trekking via the W4 Trail,
marked by the Oman Ministry of Tourism.
[ The elevation of the second south summit is .]
Climate
See also
* List of mountains in Oman
* List of mountains in the United Arab Emirates
* Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...
** Eastern Arabia
Eastern Arabia () is a region stretched from Basra to Khasab along the Persian Gulf coast and included parts of modern-day Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Eastern Province), and the United Arab ...
References
External links
Travel Blog on Jebel Shams
* http://www.enhg.org/field/jshams04/jshams04.htm
Flickr Images
* https://web.archive.org/web/20081005065647/http://www.geocities.com/evertinoman/shams.htm
Shams
Highest points of countries
Two-thousanders of Asia
Hajar Mountains
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