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| '''Shadwan''' ({{Lang-ar|شدوان}}) is a barren rocky island twenty miles southwest of the Egyptian city of [[Sharm el-Sheikh]] on the [[Sinai Peninsula]]. It is the largest of a group of islands in the mouth of the [[Gulf of Suez]] in the northern [[Red Sea]] and measures {{convert|16|km}} in length, and between {{convert|3|-|5|km}} wide.<ref name=Gawrych/> It was formerly also called '''Shaker Island''' and features a [[lighthouse]] and is familiar to anyone who has been to the northern Red Sea for [[scuba diving]].
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| On 31 March 1969 the island was the site of an [[earthquake]] measuring <math>M_s</math> 6.6 on the [[surface wave magnitude]] scale. The earthquake caused some damage including numerous rock falls. On 9 April 1996 a station of the [[Hurghada Seismological Network]] began operating on the island with the aim of gaining information on the [[seismotectonics]] of the southern Gulf of Suez region. The station is operated by solar batteries and the seismic data is transmitted by telemetry to the [[Hurghada Seismological Center]] in [[Hurghada]].<ref name=seis/>
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| During the [[War of Attrition]] between [[Israel]] and [[Egypt]], the island was fortified and held by Egyptian troops. On 22 January 1970, it was the site of [[Operation Rhodes]], a heliborne assault by Israeli troops which occupied the island for 36 hours.<ref name=Gawrych/>
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| <ref name=seis>{{cite journal|title=Seismological Observations in and around the Southern Part of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt|authors=Hurukawa N., Seto N., Inoue H., Nishigami K., Marzouk I., Megahed A., Ibrahim E. M., Murakami H., Nakamura M., Haneda T., Sugiyama S., Ohkura T., Fujii Y., Hussein H. M., Megahed A. S., Mohammed H. F., Abdel-Fattah R., Mizoue M., Hashimoto S., Kobayasi M., and Suetsugu D.|url=http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/bssa_html/bssa_91-4/00076.htm|journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America|volume=91|issue=4|pages=708–717|date=August 2001|accessdate=April 19, 2011|bibcode = 2001BuSSA..91..708H |doi = 10.1785/0120000076 }}</ref>
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| <ref name=Gawrych>{{cite book|last=Gawrych|first=George Walter|title=The albatross of decisive victory: war and policy between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Da8qEtrF2sMC|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31302-8|page=115}}</ref>
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| [[Category:Islands of Egypt]]
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| [[Category:Islands of the Red Sea]]
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| [[Category:Tourism in Egypt]]
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| [[Category:Underwater diving sites in Egypt]]
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