Gebel Kolaiqo is a small hill-mass lying off the south-eastern extremity of the Khashab — Beidâ range, from which it is separated by the Wadi Kreiga. Its highest point, marked by a triangulation beacon, is in latitude 22° 54′ 13″, longitude 35° 24′ 34″, at an altitude of 320 metres above sea-level. The drainage is mostly into Wadi Kreiga, but the south-eastern parts of the hills drain into Wadi Kolaiqo, a very shallow ill-defined drainage line coursing independently to sea across the sandy coast-plain. To the north of Gebel Kolaiqo there are two long lines of low hills forming low outliers of Nubian sandstone.
Ti Qireira is the name given to two low hills rising from the coast-plain about half-way between Gebel Kolaiqo and the black conical hill of Gemeida. These hills, four kilometres apart, rise only some fifty or sixty metres above the plain, but they are conspicuous landmarks, and hence bear a name.
The Meisah — Adar Qaqa — Is Group.
The Meisah — Adar Qaqa — Is group of mountains extends northwards from the Sudan frontier in longitude 35½°. It is separated from the Gerf — Abu Hodeid masses to the north by the Wadi Hasium; on the east, the great Wadi Di-ib divides it from the mountains of the Elba group; while to the west it is not sharply marked off from the rather lower mountainous tract of the upper Alaqi basin. Gebels Adar Qaqa (1,469 metres) and Is (1,736 metres) are on the main watershed, while Hadal Aweib Meisah (1,224 metres) forms the highest point of a huge rugged spur running northwards on the east side of the watershed. To the east of the main mountains of the group, between them and the Wadi Di-ib, are a number of detached mountain and hill-masses, of which the principal are Gebels O Shakafa, Um Ein, Qara Saba, Warabeit, Adar Aweib, and Shiab.
Hadal Aweib Meisah is a conspicuous double-topped mountain of a somewhat conical shape. Its summit, marked by a triangulation beacon, is 1,224 metres above sea-level, and has the position latitude 22° 16′ 39″, longitude 35° 31′ 55″. In plan it is almost circular, three-fourths of the circumference of its base being formed by the Wadis Awitla and Lasewid (feeders of Wadi Meisah), while the remaining fourth forms a connexion by which the mountain is joined to the long ridge of Gebel Qidmib. The ascent of the mountain was made from a camp one and three-quarter kilometres due east of the summit, in a small feeder of Wadi Lasewid, close to the spring called Megwel Um Edwa. Camels cannot get quite up to the spring, but a camp can be placed a little way further down the gully at an altitude of 596 metres above sea, and the climb of 628 metres to the top of the mountain is easily accomplished on foot in about two hours. The mountain is composed of dark gabbroid rock, the summit being composed of great blocks, weathered to a rusty brown on their surfaces; the rock is highly magnetic, and the compass points several degrees east of north at the beacon owing to local attraction.
MAP OF THE DISTRICT OF MEISAH & WADI DI-IB.
| Ball. Geography & Geology of South-Eastern Egypt. | PLATE XVIII. |
Photo-Metal-Process. Survey Dept. Cairo 1910. (60-190)
Iarih Meisah is the name given to a tract of low granite hills with sandy interspaces, which lies to the south of Hadal Aweib Meisah. It forms the head of Wadi Baueiwai.