Latham Island (Zanzibar)
| Latham Island (Fungu Kizimkazi) |
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Zanzibar Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 6 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 300 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
| surface | 3 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 4 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Latham Island , also known locally as Fungu Kizimkazi , is a small, relatively isolated island in the Zanzibar Archipelago , Tanzania .
geography
Latham Island is a flat coral island 56 km south of the island of Zanzibar and 64 km southeast of Dar es Salaam . The information about the size of the island varies by a factor of 15 between 2000 square meters (0.2 hectares ) and 3 hectares. The indication of a length of 300 meters goes hand in hand with the larger area.
The island lies in the middle of a flat bank, which is surrounded by a fringing reef . That is why it is also referred to as the island of Tanzania that comes closest to an atoll , whereby it is overlooked that the country actually has at least one atoll, namely Mnemba .
administration
The uninhabited island was repeatedly approached by passing ships. In 1758 she was approached by the ship Latham of the British East India Company, by whose name she is known today.
The Sultanate of Zanzibar laid claim to the island in the 19th century and gave one of its Arab citizens permission to salvage wreckage and debris here.
Before the First World War there was a dispute between the British representative on Zanzibar and the incumbent governor of German East Africa over the island. Both sides claimed the right to control the mining of guano. It remained an exchange of letters. In April 1912, the incumbent governor Methner visited the island.
Latham Island is now claimed by the Republic of Zanzibar as a part of Tanzania and is administratively part of the Unguja Kusini region .
However, the authorities of the central government of Tanzania on the mainland also claim sovereignty over the island. This resulted in multiple conflicts over the validity of permits for sport fishermen. Since the discovery of oil deposits off the Tanzanian coast and the granting of prospecting rights, the conflict has also come up in the parliament of Zanzibar.
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ engl. Description ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BirdLife IBA Factsheet (English)
- ↑ The Tanzanian national sea level report (English PDF; 382 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hydrographic Office, Admiralty (1878), The Africa Pilot: South and east coasts of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guardafui, including the islands in Mozambique Channel. Part III, p. 302 f online here
- ↑ elsewhere this "discovery" has been shortened to an Indian named Latham, see MD Gwynne, ISC Parker and DG Wood: Latham Island: An Ecological Note, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 136, no. 2 (Jun., 1970), pp. 247-251 , access via Jstor in April 2019
- ↑ [Gwynne et al. a., Latham Island]
- ↑ Under Three Governors (Unter Drei Gouverneuren) The Memoirs of a German Colonial Official in Tanzania 1902-1917 by Wilhelm Methner translated into English with an introduction by John East, 2019, p. 281 f ,
- ↑ compare spearblog.com from October 21, 2011
- ↑ Tanzania: Who Owns Latham Island? , Daily News report of June 17, 2016, reproduced on allafrica.com
- ^ Zanzibari launch Latham Island campaign , gloss in the Tanzanian newspaper The Citizen of October 23, 2016, forbearance in April 2019
