Bandar-e Jask

History

The English people made Jask their primary commercial port in the 17th century, and in 1616 AD, an East India Company ship carrying their first shipment sailed from India and arrived at Jask. English businessmen founded the first East India Company trading post in Jask in the year 1619. Jask served as the East India Company's hub for trade and transactions with the Iranian central region up until Bandar Abbas was given responsibility for English trade. The English and Portuguese engaged in a bloody battle that ended with the Portuguese being defeated and driven from Jask in the late 1620s after the Portuguese blocked two East India Company ships from entering the port. By 2013, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy had established a naval base at Jask. In January 2025, they announced that they planned to establish electronic warfare units in the port of Jask. On 12 May 2026 during the 2026 Iran war, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy announced a greatly expanded definition of the Strait of Hormuz stretching hundreds of kilometers from Jask to Greater Tunb Island in the north.

Most-observed species

• Lesser Black-backed Gull

  Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  71
• Purple Sunbird

  Cinnyris asiaticus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  48
• Great Cormorant/European Shag

  Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  47
• Sooty Gull

  Ichthyaetus hemprichii (Bruch, 1855) · Aves
  44
• Caspian Gull

  Larus cachinnans Pallas, 1811 · Aves
  42
• Pallas's Gull

  Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus (Pallas, 1773) · Aves
  42
• Slender-billed Gull

  Chroicocephalus genei (Brème, 1839) · Aves
  41
• Barn Swallow

  Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  41

Most recent

• M 4.4 — 2026-08-04
  120 km SSE of Mīnāb, Iran
• M 4 — 2024-09-16
  122 km SE of Mīnāb, Iran
• M 4.9 — 2020-07-07
  153 km WSW of Fann?j, Iran
• M 4.1 — 2015-03-10
  124 km SE of M?n?b, Iran
• M 4.2 — 2014-02-07
  85 km SE of M?n?b, Iran
• M 4 — 2014-02-02
  81 km SSE of M?n?b, Iran