The idiom "go round the bend" may have originally referred to traveling around this peninsula, where British officers often went crazy from isolation while they were stationed on nearby Telegraph Island.
The idiom "go round the bend" may have originally referred to traveling around this peninsula, where British officers often went crazy from isolation while they were stationed on nearby Telegraph Island. This mountainous peninsula is sometimes compared to Norway because it contains many rocky, fjord-like inlets known as khors. The Al Hajar Mountains rise in the southern part of this peninsula. Illegal trade with (*) Iran helps sustain the local economy of this peninsula, which juts into the Strait of Hormuz. For 15 points, name this peninsula that contains a namesake exclave of Oman, marking the eastern end of the Persian Gulf.
The idiom "go round the bend" may have originally referred to traveling around this peninsula, where British officers often went crazy from isolation while they were stationed on nearby Telegraph Island.
Musandam Peninsula (prompt on "Arabian Peninsula" before "mountainous")