Things to find in Madagascar

What the map holds here

• Ilakaka sapphire Gem & mineral ground
  In 1998 sapphires were found in the gravels near Ilakaka in southern Madagascar and a boom town of tens of thousands appeared in the scrub almost overnight; Madagascar is now one of the largest sapphire producers on Earth, and...
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• The pirate anchorage of Ile Sainte-Marie Legend
  For a few decades around 1700 this island off Madagascar was the best pirate base in the world: a sheltered bay on the route home from the Indian Ocean, out of reach of any navy. Kidd, Every and Tew used these waters, and the...
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• Tsingy de Bemaraha Cave
  A forest of stone. Rain has dissolved a limestone plateau in western Madagascar into a labyrinth of razor-edged pinnacles up to a hundred metres tall (tsingy means roughly “where one cannot walk barefoot”), riddled beneath with...
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Every one of these is sourced

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