Career
Shakbut"s father, Dhiyab bin Isa, had sent a hunting party from Liwa in 1761 which tracked a gazelle to a brackish spring on the island. Dhiyab ordered Shakbut to move to the island in 1793. He did, and built a village and fort there.
The fort, Qasr First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Husn, became the palace of the sheikhs.
lieutenant housed the Centre for Documentation and Research for several years, and is now being developed into a museum.
