Mayyun Island or Mayun Island, also called Perim Island, is important because of its strategic location at the narrowest point of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which all shipping in the Red Sea and Suez Canal must pass. Although rocky and small—about 5 square miles (13 square km) in area—the island’s occupier has outsize command over passage through the world’s third busiest oil chokepoint after the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Hormuz.
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