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Appendiks med optryk af regionale traktater og vedtagelser s. 140-175.
The volume "Revisiting Hormuz", gathers the proceedings of a Conference organized in March 2007 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, through its Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris. The year 2007, exactly five centuries after the Portuguese first landed on the island of Hormuz, seemed to the scientific coordinators Rui Manuel Loureiro and Dejanirah Couto a very appropriate moment to bring together a large group of specialists that could establish the current state of the art in field of the history of Portuguese interactions with Hormuz and the Persian Gulf region. The chronological borders of the Conference, quite naturally, were extended to the early decades of the 17th century, to include the final departure of the Portuguese from Hormuz in 1622 and subsequent developments. Although the focus of the Paris Conference was supposed to be history, in any of its political, social, economic or cultural variants, the complex nature of Portuguese interactions with Hormuz and Safavid Persia, that spanned for more than a century, and also the existence of an important monumental heritage of Portuguese origin in the Gulf area, made the presence of art historians, architects, and archaeologists desirable.
Two limited oceanographic investigations were performed in the Persian Gulf, one to a location approximately 200 km west of the Strait of Hormuz in May 1976 and the other to the Strait of Hormuz in April 1977. In May, inflow from the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman is detected at a point about 200 km inside the Persian Gulf and is found over the shelf off the Iranian coast within about 50 km from the shore. Adherence of the inflow to the Iranian coast is due to Coriolis deflection. In the upper 30 meters of this shelf, the surface water essentially retains the characteristics of the unmixed surface water originating in the Gulf of Oman. However, the water at a 30-m depth has been mixed partially with underlying denser and cooler water in the Persian Gulf. There are indications of progressively stronger mixing action with distance offshore. Temperature of the inflow appears to rise 5 to 7 c while travelling a 200-km distance from the Strait to the study location off Kish Island. The direction of the currents in this inflow off Kish Island was opposed to the anticipated general northwest trend at the time of this study. This is considered to indicate that, during May, inflow is not sufficiently strong to overcome the opposing effects of local winds. The average speed in the surface 30m at this location was 0.38 knot. In the southern half of the Strait of Hormuz, the water was stably stratified, consisting of three distinct water masses, Salinity and temperature extremes generally exceeded historically reported data.