Is that Khark also known as Kharg in the Persian Gulf?
If so, used to be the plum Bristow posting, week on, week off, families in Tehran etc. and you could see the rigs from the heliport!
Took the first AB206 in Iran into there one day whilst doing a round trip to Lavan, one of the engineers used to working on the Series III Whirlwind, (dozens of grease nipples in the rotor head), looked at the 206 rotor head and said, "I can see unemployment staring me in the face"!