Nara Burnu

{{Short description|Cape in Turkey}} '''Nara Burnu''' (Turkish "Cape Nara"),<ref>{{cite book | title = The Legal Regime of the Turkish Straits | author = Nihan Ünlü | publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Publishers | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-90-411-1904-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=R878VUyOyfcC | pages = 67, 139}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Ünlülata Ü. |author2=Oğuz T. |author3=Latif M.A. |author4=Özsoy E. | chapter = On the Physical Oceanography of the Turkish Straits | editor = Pratt L.J. | title = The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits | series = NATO ASI Series (Mathematical and Physical Sciences) | volume = 318 | publisher = Springer | location = Dordrecht | page = 32}}</ref> formerly '''Nağara Burnu''',<ref name="Murray">{{cite book | title = A Handbook for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople | publisher = John Murray | location = London | year = 1840 | url = https://archive.org/details/b22020822 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/b22020822/page/213 213]–214}}</ref> in English '''Nagara Point''',<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/blackseapilotda00offigoog |title=The Black Sea Pilot: The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, Black Sea, and Sea of Azov |publisher=United States Hydrographic Office |year=1927 |location=Washington |page=78 |access-date=2023-11-01}}</ref> and in older sources '''Point Pesquies''',<ref name="Murray"/> is a headland on the Anatolian side of the Dardanelles Straits, north of Çanakkale.

It is the narrowest and, with {{convert|113|m|ft}}, the deepest, section of the Dardanelles Strait. As a result, it is also the point where the surface current from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea is the strongest, with 1.5 to 2 times the normal rate, occasionally reaching the speed of {{convert|5|nmi|km}} per hour. The undercurrent is {{convert|0.5–5|nmi|km}} per hour, flowing in the opposite direction.<ref>[http://www.jmo.org.tr/resimler/ekler/3bc387894c78ab0_ek.pdf?dergi=T%DCRK%DDYE%20JEOLOJ%DD%20B%DCLTEN%DD Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni - Ağustos 2009- Sh., pp. 158, 162]</ref><ref>Oceanography of the Turkish Straits - Volume 2, Issue 1 - Page 2-9, 1988. "The first two stations cover the northeastern part of the Strait from its Marmara end (Gelibolu-Çardak section) to the vicinity of the Nara Burnu where the channel is constricted and bends sharply. The profiles of the hydrographic properties are ..."</ref> The ancient and medieval city of Abydos is located at the Nara promontory.<ref name="Freely">{{cite book | title = The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara | author = John Freely | author-link = John Freely | publisher = Companion Guides | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-1-900639-31-6 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gxwB5fQeMWIC | page = 322}}</ref>

Due to the narrowness of the straits at this point, the site was often chosen for crossings of the Dardanelles by armies, beginning with the Achaemenid monarch Xerxes I during his Invasion of Greece in 480 BC, who deployed pontoon bridges to allow his army to cross on foot.<ref name="Freely"/>

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Category:Dardanelles Category:Promontories Category:Geography of Çanakkale Province Category:Headlands of Turkey