Pakistan's largest offshore island, an uplifted table of Miocene–Pliocene Makran strata rising ~80 m from the Arabian Sea. Its wave-cut cliffs and terraces record the rapid coastal uplift of the Makran accretionary margin; it is a designated Marine Protected Area.

• Uplifted Makran Group sediments forming a mesa-like island
• Marine terraces recording coastal tectonic uplift
• Pakistan's first Marine Protected Area (nesting turtles, seabirds)

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