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Nosy Hao (22°05’S, 43°11’E) (translated: Savage island or Lices island). This island was named Sancti Jacobi on the map of Sanuto in 1588. Furthermore Murder’s Island by W. F. W. Owen in 1824 because of the murder of 2 sailors by the inhabitants. 2,2 km length and 400 m wide, 5,5 km before Andavadoaka.
Madagascar, [a] officially the Republic of Madagascar, [b] is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa , it is the world's fourth largest island , the second-largest island country and the 46th largest country overall. [ 14 ]
Madagascar – sovereign island nation located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. [1] The Island of Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world , and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species , of which more than 80% are endemic to Madagascar. [ 2 ]
In 2016, Vietnam opened an honorary-consulate in Antananarivo. [2] In 1979, during the Sino-Vietnamese War, Madagascar appealed Vietnam and China to solve the conflict by negotiation. [3] In 1999, The Vietnamese government sent 80 experts, industrial technicians and reproductive products to work in Madagascar synchronized sideways with FAO's ...
Thổ Chu Island has only one electric generator for Bai Ngu. The island does not have a water supply network so military personnel and civilians have to dig wells to get water. [6] Mobile information services of Viettel, MobiFone and Vinaphone have reached the island. [14] Thổ Chu Island Lighthouse was set up on January 25, 2000.
Rạch Giá airport has flight routes to Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnam Airlines. Rạch Giá has 2 big ship stations: Rạch Giá ship station or Phú Quốc ship station (routes to Phú Quốc island and other big islands such as Phú Quốc, Hon Tre, Hòn Sơn and Thổ Chu) and Rạch Mẽo station (route to rural towns of Cà Mau Peninsula).
Map of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands (1502) Europe knew of Madagascar through Arab sources; thus The Travels of Marco Polo claimed that "the inhabitants are Saracens, or followers of the law of Mohammed", without mentioning other inhabitants. Other than its size and location, everything about the island in the book describes southeastern ...
Thổ Chu Island - the largest entity of the archipelago - was first proposed as a marine protected area in 1995. Subsequently, Asian Development Bank proposed the establishment of a marine protected areas over Thổ Chu Island with an area of 22,400 hectares (86 sq mi), of which land area is 1,190 ha (4.6 sq mi) and sea area is 21,210 ha (81.9 sq mi).