Kwale Island (Kisiwa cha Kwale, in Swahili) is a protected, seasonally inhabited island in the Pemba Channel under the Tanga Marine Reserves (TMRS) with the IUCN category II located inside Kwale ward in Mkinga District of Tanga Region in Tanzania. The coral island, located approximately a kilometer offshore in Manza Bay, and the modern hamlet on the shoreline are both referred to as Kwale. 86.2% of Kwale Island, or 528.1 Ha, is covered with mangroves. Kwale Island and Ulenge Island are the only seasonally inhabited by islands in the marine reserve, thus the two have the most human impact.[1][2] The Island has an average elevation of 7 m (23 ft).[3]
^Muhando, C. A. "Biophysical Features in the Northern Tanga Marine Reserves, Tanzania." Marine Parks and Reserves Unit, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. vi (2011).
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KwaleIsland (Kisiwa cha Kwale, in Swahili) is a protected, seasonally inhabited island in the Pemba Channel under the Tanga Marine Reserves (TMRS) with...
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Tanga City Council of Tanga Region in Tanzania. KwaleIsland and Ulenge Island are the only islands in the marine reserve that are seasonally inhabited...
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Kirui Island, Maziwe Island, Ulenge Island, KwaleIsland and Mwewe Island. Every marine reserve has a corresponding bay, such as Tanga Bay and Kwale Bay...
Mafia island and its relationship with the mainland." AZANIA: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 34.1 (1999): 1-10. "KwaleIsland history"...
Funzi Island is a settlement in Kenya's Kwale County. Funzi consists of four mangrove covered islands where Funzi Island is the main island and the only...
constantly being washed through by tidal currents like those on Ulenge and KwaleIslands are. They are more varied and contain sediment deposits that are often...
bay in Mkinga District of Tanga Region of Tanzania. The bay is home to KwaleIsland and is surrounded in the north by Boma peninsula. It is on the coast...
Karange Island ( Kisiwa cha Karange, in Swahili) is a small uninhabited and protected island in Mtangata Bay of Tongoni in Tanga District of Tanga Region...
of the Tanga Bay vicinity, including Amboni caves perimeter, and the KwaleIsland in the northern coast of Tanzania." Studies in the African Past 12 (2019):...
at different locations throughout the territory including one post at KwaleIsland in current day Mkuranga District of Pwani Region. From 1944 to 1946 he...
Mwewe Island on foot from communities on the mainland in Moa and Boma wards at spring low tides, just like other islands (Ulenge and KwaleIslands) are...
endangered Dugong is found off the coast in Mkinga District near Kirui Island. Tanga Region has a tropical savanna climate with the Köppen climate classification...
challenge of colonial authority. Although a small number of Digo people in the Kwale district and Swahili coastal cities along the coast have been Muslim for...
Swahili language and culture and founded settlements along the coast and islands. Below is a list of Swahili settlements founded between 800 CE to 1900...
based in Tanzania's Tanga Region (particularly Mkinga District) and Kenya's Kwale County. Most Segeju reside in the small coastal strip between the Tanzanian...
numerous isolated mountain blocks of the Usambaras in the northeast, a "green island in a brown sea." According to their historian, "The Shambaa" are inhabitants...
sometimes referred to as "Islamized Segeju". The Segeju are also found in the Kwale county of Kenya. Most of their tradition has been heavily influenced by...
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