Makatumbi Islands
Map showing the location of Makatumbi Islands
Map showing the location of Makatumbi Islands
location in Tanzania
Location Tanzania,
Dar es Salaam Region,
Kigamboni District
Nearest cityDar es Salaam
Coordinates6°48′0″S 39°20′04″E / 6.80000°S 39.33444°E / -6.80000; 39.33444
Area7.8km²
EstablishedMarch 2007
Governing bodyMarine Parks & Reserves Authority (Tanzania)
WebsiteDMRS

Makatumbi Islands or Makatumbe Islands (Visiwa Vya Makatumbi, in Swahili) are a protected, uninhabited islands in the Sea of Zanj under the Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve (DMRS) with the IUCN category II located within Kigamboni District of Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. The islands reserve measures around 7.8km2 consisting of inner and outer Makatumbi Island. South of the island is Kimbubu Island and north is the Dar es Salaam harbor mouth .[1][2][3][4] The island is under threat from Marine pollution as elevated cadmium readings offshore for a core found east of Makatumbe Island near the entrance to the Dar es Salaam harbour. [5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Marine Parks and Marine Reserves of Tanzania". Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  2. ^ Levine, Arielle. (2010). Local Responses to Marine Conservation in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy. July–December 2004. 183-202. 10.1080/13880290490883241
  3. ^ Roxburgh, T., et al. "An assessment of the stakeholders and resource use in Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve System." ICRAN/WIOMSA (2002).
  4. ^ Daudi, Lillian Nduku, et al. "Effect of nutrient enrichment on seagrass associated meiofauna in Tanzania." Marine environmental research 82 (2012): 49-58.
  5. ^ Muzuka, A. "Distribution of heavy metals in the coastal marine surficial sediments in the Msasani Bay-Dar es Salaam harbour area." Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science 6.1 (2008).
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