Kish Island measuring 91.5 kilometers in area is situated 18 kilometers south of Iran's southern coast and about 300 kilometers away from the port city of Bandar Abbas. Kish is almost elliptical with an east-west length of 13 kilometers, and a width of 7 kilometer running from north to south. The Island's highest point is in its eastern part which rises about 45 meters above the sea level. Its average height is 32 meters which means only 13 meters difference from its highest point

Kish has a long history of about 3,000 years, being called under various names such as Kamtina, Arakia, Arakata, and Ghiss in the course of time. In 325 BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Niarkus to set off an expedition voyage into the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf. Niarkus's writings indicate that he visited Araracta in the 4th century BC. His descriptions of Araracta precisely match with the characteristics of Kish.

(Thanks for image and info go to Soroosh Gahremani)