You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein

The view from Maqlab, popularly known as Telegraph Island ever since the British set up shop there. It was here in 1864 that a submarine cable from Basra to India was landed. Now, nothing remains on this little suggestion of an island except the remains of old walls, but it’s still nice to climb on top and look over a dolphin-speckled sea towards mountains on the other side.

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