What is the strategic geographical significance of the Musandam Peninsula, an exclave of the Sultanate of Oman?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. It forms the southern coastline of the Strait of Hormuz maritime corridor
- Step 1: Musandam is an Omani exclave separated from the rest of the country by the UAE.
- Step 2: It terminates at Ras Musandam, directly overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, the vital maritime transit choke point through which approximately 20-30% of the world's petroleum passes.
- Step 3: Oman exercises sovereignty over the southern navigable shipping lanes of the strait.
Answer
It forms the southern coastline of the Strait of Hormuz maritime corridor.
Why not the others: Suez Canal is in Egypt; Salalah is in southern Oman (Dhofar); Yemen borders Dhofar in the southwest.
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