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THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: The Waterway That Could Shut Down the World | 4K Travel Documentary

20% of the world's oil passes through a gap of water narrower than most cities are wide. For five hundred years, every empire that has controlled the Strait of Hormuz has used the same strategy — charge for passage, or deny it entirely. In 1507, the Portuguese built a fortress on a red coral island and invented the cartaza, a toll system for ships. In 2026, Iran's parliament drafted legislation to do exactly the same thing. Between the geopolitics and the oil prices, a village of seven hundred people clings to a cliff face at the tip of the Musandam Peninsula. They speak a language found nowhere else on Earth. Their fishermen set out at dawn into the same shipping lanes where supertankers once passed — now empty. In this documentary, discover the Kingdom of Hormuz, the rainbow geology of an island most maps don't name, the mangrove forest that desalinates the sea, and the 1988 tragedy that explains why Iran treats Western navies as a threat, not a guarantee. ▶ See More Middle East Documentaries: SOCOTRA:    • SOCOTRA: The Island That Evolved Alone for...   MALI:    • MALI: The Lost Kingdom You Were Never Supp...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @whereonearth4k   #StraitOfHormuz #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #MiddleEast #PersianGulf #IranUSwar