It is located about 120 km south of Dakhla region and its coastline is scarcely populated and thus keeping wild environment on today.
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A scientific survey throughout the coasts extending to Dakhla peninsula/bay was conducted in 1998 and no evidence of any right whales still using the area was found.
In 1884, Spanish colonists commemorated Cisneros by founding Villa Cisneros, now Dakhla, Western Sahara.
Later that year two of his sons were detained and without trial ordered to an exile in the Spanish Sahara outpost of Villa Cisneros, which would soon turn into the Carlist hotbed.
The second officer and 22 crew were picked up on 23 July by the Tuscan Star, while the chief officer and 20 survivors made landfall at Villa Cisneros, Spanish Sahara.
He also travelled with Bagnold in 1932 from Cairo to Kharga, to Uweinat, Sarra, Tekro, Uweinat, El Fasher, Bir Natrun, Merga, Laqia, Selima, Wadi Halfa, Dakhla, Bahariya and Cairo, a total distance of 6000 miles.
Piye's Highest known Date was long thought to be the Year 24 III Akhet day 10 date mentioned in the "Smaller Dakhla Stela" (Ashmolean Museum No.1894) from his reign.
The Year 5 wrš feast is recorded to have been celebrated at Dakhla oasis on IV Peret day 25 and Krauss' exploration of the astronomical data leads him to conclude that the only 'fit' within the period of 950 to 930 BCE places the accession of Sheshonq I between December 944 and November 943 BCE—or 943 BCE for the most part.
MT has announced plans to create a fibre-optic network connecting the Moroccan cities Laâyoune and Dakhla to Nouadhibou, which would ultimately be extended to other North African countries.