Gulf of Drin famous endangered sea turtles, which are to be found in almost all the coasts, it hosts whales such as the cuvier's beaked whale and dolphins amongst them the striped dolphin, risso's dolphin and common bottlenose dolphin. Gulf of Drin The Gulf of Drin or Drin Bay () is an ocean basin of the Adriatic Sea within the Mediterranean Sea in the northern coast of Albania. Roughly in shape of a scythe, it extends immediately from the Delta of Buna in the north, across the port city of Shëngjin, to the Cape of Rodon in the south. The shoreline of the
Gulf of Suez Rift the area now occupied by the rift was a shallow sea depositing carbonates. This period was mainly quiet tectonically but the northern part of the gulf region was affected by periodic far-field effects of the Alpine orogeny. A series of WSW-ENE trending extensional basins were inverted, creating isolated uplifted and folded areas known as 'Syrian arc' structures. These structures were mainly active during the Late Santonian but there is evidence of further movements on the same structures at the end of the Cretaceous and during the Paleogene. Rifting began along the whole of the Red Sea -Gulf of Suez rift