Musandam Island is a triangular shape, it is located in the Strait of Hormuz, It has an area of about 5 km2, there is a high peak rises at the entrance of the corridor called Ras Al Bab or Ras Musandam, this peak was called Lion’s jaws due to its dangerous undertow. Which contains a rocks and similar to the jaw of the lion and there is an old castle on this island, it has been built of square stone blocks, but the ruins was left of it.
The door of the jaw of the lion is a mountainous formations in the form of the head of the lion, because of the presence of two rock masses appear to be the jaw of an open lion, the traders and sailors considered the resort to this area and access to this gate, it secure them from the storms and ocean currents, which are formed at the junction of the Sea of Oman in the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean close to the Strait of Hormuz.