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    Beautiful Madagascar

    May 14, 2021 5 minutes
    EDITED BY SANDRA VISSER

    YOU’D be forgiven if Alex the lion, Marty the zebra or Mel-man the camel were the first things that spring to mind when you hear the word Madagascar. The characters in the popular movie have played a big part in introducing young audiences to this island in the Indian Ocean about 420km off the southeast coast of Africa.

    And although the Big Red Island, as it’s also known, has no lions, zebras or camels, it does boast fascinating animals and plants, many of them unique.

    GEOGRAPHY

    Madagascar is the world’s after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. Unlike nearby islands Mauritius, the Comoros, Réunion and Rodrigues, it wasn’t created by volcanic eruptions. About the island slowly from the and drifted away over millions of years to its current position.

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