rebuilding and expansion that would have been necessary to make Suakin comparable. By 1922, the last of the British had left. 21st century SInce 2000, Sudan’s National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums has undertaken research and documented the history of Suakin, and in 2022, the online project Sudan Memory published historical photographs, architectural drawings and a 3D reconstruction of the town on its website. On 17 January 2018, as part of a rapprochement with Sudan, Turkey was granted a 99-year lease over Suakin island. Turkey plans to restore the ruined Ottoman port city on the island. Buildings of Suakin A detailed description of the buildings of Suakin, including measured plans and detailed sketches, can be found in The Coral Buildings of Suakin: Islamic Architecture, Planning, Design and Domestic Arrangements in a Red Sea Port by Jean-Pierre Greenlaw, Kegan Paul International, 1995, . Climate Suakin has a very hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) with brutally hot and humid, though dry, summers and very warm winters. Rainfall is minimal except from October to December, when easterly winds can give occasional downpours: in November 1965 as much as fell, but in the whole year from July 1981 to June 1982 no more than was recorded. References Further reading Greenlaw, Jean-Pierre (1995) The Coral Buildings of Suakin: Islamic Architecture, Planning, Design and Domestic Arrangements in a Red Sea Port. Kegan Paul International, Um, Nancy. "Greenlaw's Suakin: the limits of architectural representation and the continuing lives of buildings in Coastal Sudan." African Arts, vol. 44, no. 4, 2011, p. 36+. Gale Literature Resource Center Cooke, B. Kennedy, and B. Kennedy-Cooke. “The Red Sea coast in 1540.” Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 16, no. 2, 1933, pp. 151–59, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41716059. Accessed 11 Apr. 2022. Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu: fac-simile. Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses. Lisboa, 1992. Vasco Graça Moura Couto, Diogo do; Observações sobre as principais causas da decadência dos portugueses na Ásia External links Comparative Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken at Suakin: Arabic, Hadendoa, Beni-Amer Pictures of Suakin on Atlas Obscura Suakin: Time and Tide — on Saudi Aramco World Suakin Island - A Virtual Experience A 3D reconstruction of the Island https://observador.pt/2016/12/16/diogo-do-couto-o-portugues-da-india-ha-500-anos/ Populated places in Red Sea (state) Port cities and towns of the Red Sea Ramsar sites in Sudan Cities in Sudan