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Tigres Island ( pt, Ilha dos Tigres) is an island in
Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...
. It is situated in the
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 ...
.


History

It is the largest island of Angola; its area is 98 km. It once had been a small peninsula in
Tigres Strait The Tigres Strait, formerly known as Tigres Bay or Great Fish Bay, is a strait in Angola, located in Namibe Province, serving as a separation between the Angolan mainland and the Tigres Island. Geography It once had a small peninsula on its ea ...
known as ''Península dos Tigres'' with 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 on March 14, 1962, and the water line was severed. Tigres became an island overnight with no water supply. Later Tigres and the pump station at the Cunene river mouth were abandoned, and have become ghost towns slowly being reclaimed by the desert.


See also

*
List of lighthouses in Angola This is a list of lighthouses in Angola. Lighthouses See also * List of lighthouses in the Republic of the Congo (to the north-west) * List of lighthouses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo * List of lighthouses in Namibia (to the south) ...
* List of islands of Angola *
List of ghost towns The following is a list of ghost towns, listed by continent, then by country. Africa Angola * The settlement of Saint Martin of the Tigers (in Portuguese: ''São Martinho dos Tigres''), situated on a peninsula now known as the Tigres Island ...


References

Islands of Angola Lighthouses in Angola Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean {{angola-geo-stub