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Zabargad Island (Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة الزبرجد
Geziret El
Zabargad, also
known as St. John's
Island in English) is the
largest of a
group of islands...
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between Australia and
Antarctica St. John's Island, Egypt, also
known as
Zabargad or
Emerald Island because of
ancient peridot mines Ireland, so referred...
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finest gem-quality
olivine has been
obtained from a body of
mantle rocks on
Zabargad Island in the Red Sea.
Olivine occurs in both
mafic and
ultramafic igneous...
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Governorate of Egypt. This tiny
uninhabited island gets some
shelter from
Zabargad Island (6 km [3.7 mi] to the northwest), but also gets fed from north–south...
- Wadi
Sikait in the
adjacent mountains, and the
island of
Ophiodes (now
Zabargad Island) in the
mouth of Berenice's harbor, were rich
sources of gemstones...
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Ophiodes (Ὀφιώδηςνήσος, "Snakey") or
Topazios (Τοπάζιος, "Topaz"),
modern Zabargad Island, off the
ancient Red Sea port
Berenice Troglodytica.
Diodorus says...
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evolution in the Red Sea Rift:
Uplifted gabbro/gneiss
crustal complexes on
Zabargad and
Brothers Islands".
Journal of
Geophysical Research. 92 (B12): 12803–12821...
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mollusk in the
family Chromodorididae. This
species was
described from
Hotel Zabargad, 120 km
south of
Marsa Alam,
Egypt with
additional material from Hurghada...
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olive greenish yellow fosterite, var.
peridot (topaz "from"
Topazios (
Zabargad Island), Red Sea); "chalcedony", var.
chrysoprase ("from" Liguria, Italy);...
- out of the Gulf and down the
Egyptian coast a
particular danger spot was
Zabargad Island (also
known as St John's or
Emerald Island because of
ancient peridot...
