Yabangoodi

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Yabangoodi
Waters Indian Ocean
Archipelago Bajuni Islands
Geographical location 0 ° 31 ′  S , 42 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 0 ° 31 ′  S , 42 ° 26 ′  E
Yabangoodi (Somalia)
Yabangoodi

Yabangoodi is an island in Somalia . It belongs politically to Jubaland and geographically to the Bajuni Islands , a chain of coral islands ( barrier islands ), which extends from Kismaayo in the north over 100 kilometers to the Raas Kaambooni near the Kenyan border.

geography

The island forms a small group of islands with Chianguva and Ziva Zecundru and forms a kind of closure of the Bajuni Islands, as the islands of Matunga-iyo-Baaba , Smiid , Bishikaani , Salooto Feerde and Seerbeenti are more connected to the land and no longer to the land belong to the same reef rim. The island of Furro connects to the south . The island is about 1.5 km from the coast and consists of the sea-side reef edge. Ziva Zecundru is part of a second reef rim.

climate

The climate is tropical hot monsoon climate .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oscar Gakuo Mwangi: Jubaland: Somalia's new security dilemma and state-building efforts. In: Africa Review 8.2 (2016): pp. 120–132.
  2. Yabangoodi at GeoNames , geonames.org. Retrieved August 6, 2020