Tigres Island () is an island in

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. It is situated in the

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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 Tigres'' with a well established fishing village named

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(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. Ilha dos Tigres 1466533 960 720

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