Dead Iceland

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Kisiwa cha Toten (Toten Island, formerly Toteninsel)
Kisiwa cha Wafu
Kisiwa cha Wafu
Waters Indian Ocean
Geographical location 5 ° 3 '21 "  S , 39 ° 6' 27"  E Coordinates: 5 ° 3 '21 "  S , 39 ° 6' 27"  E
Dead Island (Tanzania)
Dead Iceland
length 1 km
width 290 m
surface 16 ha
Residents uninhabited

Kisiwa cha Toten ( Swahili -development of the historical German name Toteninsel via English Toten Island ) lies in the port of Tanga , Tanzania . The place name Tanga (Swahili for sail ) is derived from the shape of the island.

history

On the island there are the ruins of two churches and a mosque . The name of the island comes from the German and stands for the many graves on the island. Since 1854 some people lived on the island, who finally moved to Tanga in 1884. Around 1900 there was a quarantine station on the island .

The island is one kilometer long and up to 290 meters wide. The area is about 16 hectares .

gallery

  • Shore of the island of the dead with a view of Tanga (1906–1918)

  • Cemetery on Dead Island (1906–1918)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tanga, in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon. Volume 3, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, pp. 454f.
  2. ^ Rudolf Fitzner: German Colonial Handbook. Volume 1, 2nd ext. Ed., Hermann Paetel, Berlin 1901, p. 279.

swell

  • Jens Finke, The Rough Guide to Tanzania, p. 169, 2003

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