A recce of the Musandam Peninsula and in particular the Elphinstone Inlet (Khawr as Shamm), flying off HMS Leander in 1968. Scans from colour slides.

In 1968 there was no tourism and the area was extremely remote and home to the reclusive and pagan Shihu tribe. Their strange language, unlike any other in Arabia may indicates a possible surviving strain of the pre-Semitic people of Arabia.

Slide 004 shows Telegraph Island which briefly housed a Cable & Wireless relay station in the 1860s.
Slide 012 shows the remains of the WWII Naval Signal Station on Goat Island at the head of the Peninsula. The Wasp helicopter briefly touched down on the only remaining concrete roof.