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Madagascar
In December, the Costa Marina will pake port calls at two different places in Madagascar: Nosy Be, just off the NW coast, and Toamasina, on the east coast.
On the above map, you'll notice that Nosy Be is and island. Nosy is the word for 'island' in the Malagasy language.
From Wikipedia:
Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to five percent of the world's plant and animal species; more than 80 percent of which are endemic to Madagascar. Most notable are the lemur . . .
Madagascar's long isolation from the neighboring continents (it is the oldest island in the world, isolated for at least 65 million years) has resulted in a unique mix of plants and animals, many found nowhere else in the world; some ecologists refer to Madagascar as the "eighth continent"
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