The humble pier and coastal warehouses of this ancient anchorage -Karavostasi translates as the mooring place of the ships- is 10 miles south-west of Güzelyurt. In the 1920s it was transformed into a great processing and exporting centre for Cypriot copper and asbestos. These works were abandoned in mid-1970s.

Off the coast road west of Gemikonağı is the village of Yeşilırmak where there are a number of pebble beaches with restaurants and offshore rafts where locals and UN forces practice their water sports. Yeşilırmak (translates as green river) village is the only one of a half a dozen villages west of Vouni to have survived the inter-communal fighting.

It is also the furthest removed from the pollution of the old mine workings. To the wests of the beach is the steep-sided offshore island of Petra tou Limniti, which harboured a Neolithic settlement but is inaccessible even to strong swimmers.