The Tigres Strait, formerly known as Tigres Bay or Great Fish Bay, is a strait in

Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...

, located in

Namibe Province Namibe Province is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. Under Portuguese Angola, Portuguese rule it was the Moçâmedes District. It has an area of 57,091 km2 and had a 2014 census population of 495,326. The port and city of Namibe, Mo ...

, serving as a separation between the Angolan mainland and the

Tigres Island Tigres Island ( pt, Ilha dos Tigres) is an island in Angola. It is situated in the Namibe Province. History It is the largest island of Angola; its area is 98 km. It once had been a small peninsula in Tigres Strait known as ''Península dos ...

Geography

It once had a small peninsula on its eastern side, with its

isthmus An isthmus (; ; ) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmu ...

in the south and a well established fishing village named

Saint Martin of the Tigers Saint Martin of the Tigers (in portuguese: ''São Martinho dos Tigres''), sometimes referred to simply as Village of Tigres Bay (in portuguese: ''Vila da Baía dos Tigres''), is a ghost town in southern Angola, located on Tigres Island, currently s ...

(in Portuguese: ''São Martinho dos Tigres''). The ocean broke through the isthmus of the peninsula in 1962 and the water line was severed. Tigres became an island overnight,

, the largest island of Angola. Currently, most of the area of the former bay has become a

strait A strait is an oceanic landform connecting two seas or two other large areas of water. The surface water generally flows at the same elevation on both sides and through the strait in either direction. Most commonly, it is a narrow ocean channe ...

between the island and the mainland. Of the original bay, only a small

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

open to the north —the ''Saco dos Tigres''— remains at the southern end.

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Straits of the Atlantic Ocean Bays of Angola Straits of Africa {{angola-geo-stub

Geography

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