fresh water of any site on the coast. A large mountain overlooks the west end of the beach. Cliffs rise above the ocean in this area. Iron in the form of specular hematite is available in the Marbat plain, within a few days' hike to the east of Khor Kharfot. A form of flint is available on the surface in large quantities. Ancient ruins show that Khor Kharfot was occupied intermittently, although it is currently uninhabited. The coast is well suited to sailing, with seasonal winds in the fall blowing east. Salalah In Mormon culture, the most popular traditional location of Bountiful is Salalah in modern Oman. LDS scholar Hugh Nibley first proposed this location as Nephi's Bountiful in an article published in the Improvement Era in 1950. Nibley's conclusion was based upon early writings describing life in Arabia, including an account describing the fertile Salalah area written by English explorer Bertram Thomas . Khor Rori/Wadi Darbat Khor Rori is an Iron Age ship building and trading port about 40 kilometers east of the modern town of Salalah and in the same Salalah region as some of the other sites; Nephi's potential use of the site predates the earliest archaeological finds on this site. In contrast to inaccessible Kohr Kharfot, many LDS researchers are now of the opinion that Khor Rori better meets all of the 12 key points addressed by Aston and others as well as additional aspects they failed to address. These additional points that Kohr Kharfot lack include accessibility for caravan arrival, rich abundance of timber-bearing ancient and modern groves, fresh vegetation extending from Kohr Rori many miles up the Wadi Darbat, large amounts of year-round fresh water teeming with aquatic and wildlife, abundance of wild honey, an inland natural port framed by twin integral seaside cliffs, a readily accessible mountain backdrop for Nephi's prayers, annual monsoon season floods that easily transport timber from Wadi Darbat directly to the seaside Kohr Rori port, and a protected harbor in which a ship could be rigged and seamanship could be learned. Another important aspect is that the Old World location and scenery would have had to be impressive enough that later generations of New World Book of Mormon people would recall and honor the location by their reuse of the name "Bountiful". The competing site Kohr Kharfot remains an uninhabited and inaccessible rock canyon defile with no natural harbor