During the dry season some clans migrate to the desert area of the Kababish tribe to the west (Khala' Kabushiyah, خلاء كبوشية) others to the grazing grounds of Wad Hamid (بادية ود حامد) in the Ga'ali Country (الجعليين) or to the Rubatab (الرباطاب) Country.
Hamid Karzai | Abdul Hamid II | Hamid Nasir Chattha | Hamid Gul | Hamid Drake | Hamid Dabashi | Abdul Hadi Abdul Hamid | Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi | Abdul Hamid I | Mohammad Hamid Ansari | Hamid Juma Faris Jouri al-Saeedi | Zakri Abdul Hamid | Wad Madani | Wad Hamid | Syed Hamid Albar | Sultan Hamid II | Sultan Abdul Hamid II | Sufi Abdul Hamid | Mohsin Hamid | Hamid Saeed Kazmi | Hamid Nadimi | Hamid Javaid | Hamid Hassy | Hamid Dastmalchi | Hamid Chitchian | Hamid Baqai | Hamid Ashraf | Hamid Ali Khan | Hamid Algabid | Hamid |
A ship near the island was part of the Lord Herbert Kitchener Pasha campaign, which set up a camp near Wad Hamid on 24 August 1898 before Pasha went to Oumdurman for the final battle at Kararri on 2 September 1898.