
Zembretta () is an island located in the north-eastern
Gulf of Tunis
The Gulf of Tunis () is a large Mediterranean bay in north-eastern Tunisia, extending for from Cape Farina in the west to Cape Bon in the east. Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia, lies at the south-western edge of the Gulf, as have a series of s ...
about east of the island of
Zembra. Its area is two hectares.
With Zembra, it is also classified as an
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
(TN003).
[MOURAD AMARI, HICHEM AZAFZAF (2001). ''Tunisia in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation, Fishpool, L. D. C. and Evans, M. I., eds'' (PDF). Cambridge: Pisces Publications, Birdlife International. p. 958.]
References
Islands of Tunisia
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