Which Kuwaiti island is celebrated as the country's only historically continuously inhabited island and a major archaeological treasure trove containing Bronze Age Dilmun settlements and a Hellenistic Greek fortress (Ikaros)?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. Failaka Island

  1. Step 1: Failaka Island, located approximately 20 kilometers east of Kuwait City at the entrance of Kuwait Bay, has been inhabited since the Bronze Age.
  2. Step 2: It served as a prominent maritime trade post of the Dilmun civilization (c. 2000 BCE) and later hosted a Greek garrison and temple dedicated to Artemis under the Seleucid Empire, who named it Ikaros.
  3. Step 3: It remained populated until the 1990 Gulf War.
Answer
Failaka Island.
Why not the others: 'Miskan Island' is an uninhabited barren island housing an automated navigation lighthouse; 'Warbah Island' is an uninhabited wetland island; 'Qaruh Island' is an uninhabited coral cay.

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