Translation of "ikigobe" into English

“HAGATI y’ikigobe cya Peresi n’umugi wa Bagidadi hari ibirundo bya rukarakara bitanogeye ijisho.

“HALFWAY between the Persian Gulf and the city of Baghdad there is an unsightly pile of mud bricks.

Abahanga mu bya siyansi bavuga ko icyo kiyaga cyahoze ari ikigobe cy’inyanja ya Pasifika, ariko ikirunga kikaza kuruka, maze amazi yacyo akitandukanya n’inyanja.

Scientists believe that this body of water was once a bay open to the Pacific but that volcanic action sealed it off from the ocean.