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Revision as of 00:22, 22 March 2013
Jabal Arkanu (also Jebel Arkenu, Gebel Árchenu) is a mountain (height 1435 m., about 500 m. above the surrounding Gilf Kebir plateau) and a valley-oasis placed in the Libyan Desert in the Kufra District of Libya, about 300 km southeast of El Tag.[1] Arkanu's existence was known since 1892 through Arab sources, but the mountain has been explored for the first time in 1923 by Ahmed Hassanein. [1] The mountain consists of intrusive granite. The valley is 15 km long and oriented in east-west. [1] The vegetation consists on bushes, grass and some tree. [1] Arkanu is used as a pasture. Each year the Bedouins bring their herds in the valley, block the entrance (placed at an height of 598 m.) with rocks, and come back three months later to pick up the cattle. [1]
It lies in the desert about 70 km west of Arkanu and the two Arkenu structures.
Sources
- Bertarelli, L.V. (1929). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII (in Italian). Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.
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