Infrastructure · Evidence-led place record

Passport Island

Saudi Arabia

artificial island located on the Bahrain–Saudi Arabia border, 25 km west of Manama, Bahrain

Passport Island in Saudi Arabia
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryARTIFICIAL ISLAND
LocationSaudi Arabia
DatasetExpanded physical oddities
Oddness signal88/99
Data completeness88%

The oddity, explained

Why is Passport Island unusual?

Passport Island appears here because the approved source classifies it as infrastructure. The source describes it as artificial island located on the Bahrain–Saudi Arabia border, 25 km west of Manama, Bahrain. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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