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People
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Not many people live on Masirah. Most of those are in the town of Ras Hilf where the ferry docks. Sailings are dependent on the tide so there's no regular timetable. Fishing is the principal economic activity on the island other than the airbase. Large fishing dhows moored off the southern beaches take in large catches which are shipped on to the mainland in large refrigerated chests and driven to the more densely populated north of Oman. The fishing village of Hiql on the west of Masirah is little more than a collection of shelters in a bay fringed by white sands. Sur Masirah probably enjoys a reasonably reliable groundwater supply because of a major geological structure which dissects the higher ground in the middle of the island. The fault acts as a line of weakness which enables the groundwater to "flow" along it to the coast.
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