View of Khor Ghorera, Yemen, c. 1914. Khor Ghorera, also known as the lagoon of Cheikh Said in the early 20th century, is a shallow lagoon on the western side of the Peninsula of Cheikh Saïd, also know as the Peninsula of Bab el-Mandeb, facing the island of Perim. The lagoon communicates with the Red Sea (discernible in the background on the right), through a very narrow and shallow entrance. The photograph was most likely taken in early 1914, when Yemen was still part of the Ottoman Empire. A Turkish garrison occupied Fort Turba, a small dilapidated fort at the top of a promontory nearby. It was then the southernmost point of the Ottoman Empire.