Lake Habbaniyah ( Buḥayrat al-Ḥabbāniya) is a lake located halfway between Ramadi and Fallujah near Al-Taqaddum (TQ) Air Base in Al Habbaniyah in Anbar Province, Iraq.

In the late 1930s and 1940s Lake Habbaniyah was used by Imperial Airways as a refueling point and hotel for flying boats flying from the United Kingdom to India. Nearby on the banks of the Euphrates had already been established the Royal Air Force airbase of RAF Dhibban, later renamed RAF Habbaniya.

Lake Habbaniyah

It was the scene of action during the Rashid Ali rebellion Anglo-Iraqi War when the RAF trainee aircrew and troops stationed there effectively sawed off the besieging Iraqi troops and subsequent German aerial attacks.

Lake Habbaniyah

See also

123 Signals Unit RAF

Al Taqaddum - TQ

RAF Habbaniya

Lake Tharthar

Lake Milh

Lake Qadisiyah

Mosul Dam

List of dams and reservoirs in Iraq

Wildlife of Iraq

References

Al Anbar Governorate

Lakes of Iraq

Euphrates

Lake Habbaniyah