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Showing posts with label Madagascar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madagascar. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar



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With a population of about 1,4 million, Antananarivo is the largest city of Madagascar.

The postcard gives you a view of the city by night, including Lake Anosy. 

Friday, July 18, 2014

Lemurs of the Nahampoana Reserve, Madagascar


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Nahampoana Reserve covers 67 hectares of rainforest near the south-east coast of Madagascar. The reserve is home to many endemic species like different kinds of lemurs, THE symbol of Madagascar.
 
Lemurs are a group of primates unique to Madagascar, exhibiting huge variation in size and appearance. The smallest, mouse lemurs, can be as small as one’s thumb. On the other end, there were grass-grazing lemur species that are estimated to have weighed over 400 pounds, but were driven extinct by the local people.

There are almost 100 existing species of lemurs. They get their name from the Latin word “lemures” meaning ghosts of spirits,

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Jean Laborde (1805 – 1878) was an adventurer and early industrialist in Madagascar.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Little shop in Antananarivo | Madagascar


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Antananarivo is the capital, largest city (with a population of about 1,6 million) and the economic center of Madagascar.

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Jean Laborde (1805 – 1878) was an adventurer and early industrialist in Madagascar. Laborde built a complete industrial complex. Within 6 years, he had blast furnaces with waterwheel-powered draught producing cast iron etc.  

Thursday, April 26, 2012

A postcard from Madagascar: the Island of Nosy Be



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Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa opposite Mozambique. It is the world's fourth-largest island.

Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony in 1896. Independence follows in 1960, under the new name of the Malagasy republic.

Nosy Be is an island located off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Nosy Be is Madagascar's largest and busiest tourist resort.

Nosy Be is an island paradise rich in fauna and flora, a scuba divers promised land with an extensive coral reef system housing creatures & corals from all over the Indian ocean.


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(left) From a set of 8 stamps about flowers: Asteropeia amblyocarpais, a plant endemic to Madagascar.

(right) Solar Eclipse Africa 2001: On June 21, 2001 a total eclipse of the Sun darkened the continent of Africa.



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