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

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, 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 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 isthmus ...

in the south and a well established fishing village named Saint Martin of the Tigers (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, Tigres Island, 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 chan ...

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 ...

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

References

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

Geography

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