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Delagoa Bay

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Delagoa Bay Mozambique: see Maputo Bay .

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	Maputo Bay Denied to Be Infected With Cholera ; ...National Commission on Cholera (CNCC) said today that the Maputo Bay was not infected with cholera virus as some have claimed...Company have warned people against eating shell fish from the Maputo Bay, saying that the bay has been infected with cholera virus... Read more
	Tanker spills oil on Mozambique coast ; ...P already has begun washing onto beaches and drifting into Maputo Bay, the AIM news agency quoted Foreign Minister Pascoal Mocumbi...impoverished, war-torn country on Africa's southeast coast. Maputo Bay is fringed with mangrove forests that feed shellfish, including... Read more
	Good fleet for Da Gama Race.(Sports) ; ...entered for this year's mcel Vasco da Gama Ocean Race from Maputo to Durban, which starts offshore Clube Naval on the shores of Maputo Bay on Thursday. It is described by race organiser, Dave Claxton, as the most prestigious and well loved coastal race in South... Read more
	Mozambique Maps Out Policy to Reduce Prawning ; ...prawning time reduced f rom 280,000 hours to 180,000 hours, according to the policy. Facing the excessive prawning in Sofala and Maputo Bay areas, the Mozambican authorities have started to look for new areas of prawning in northern, central and southern parts of... Read more
	$1.5M Invested in Mozambique's Maputo Game Park ; ...fencing the natural reserve to protect local citizens from possible attacks by the animals. The natural reserve covers 236,000 hectares of land from IIha de Inhaca island in Maputo Bay in the north to the Mozambican-South African border in the south. Read more
	Mystery over Machel's death fuels regional conflict in Africa ; ...confused. "I've lost it," he told controllers. In fact, the plane was nowhere near its mark. Instead of turning west over Maputo Bay, the pilot was 39 miles west of that point, making an identical but fatal turn over the Lebombo hills, toward the flickering... Read more
	A JOURNEY I WILL NEVER FORGET ; Paul Hopkins on saving the animal world's most noble creature and boosting eco-tourism to boot ; ...elephants at their most natural. The Tembe-Thonga people have historically lived and ruled over the territory stretching from Maputo Bay in the north, to Lake St. Lucia in the south. They were divided by their colonial masters who, in 1875, redrew the border... Read more
	Chances are good that fleet will experience strong winds.(Sports) ; ...race by John Bentley and the late Bob Nuttall, who were race pioneers. This year's sponsors have set up a pursuit race in Maputo Bay a day prior to the start, and promise a massive entry from local Mozambicans as their sailing fleet and dhows will be competing... Read more
	Letting go of South Africa's helping hand: one of Mozambique's greatest assets is to have South Africa as its next door neighbour. The latter has played a great part in Mozambique's continuing growth path, but, Neil Ford argues, it is now time for Mozambique to strike out on its own.(MOZAMBIQUE) ; ...to pose a serious threat to its domination for a long time to come. As a result, the South African government is content to see Maputo compete with South African ports for South African customers. It provides an alternative outlet for exports when capacity... Read more
	EU big fish threaten industry. (European Union's demand is harmful to Mozambique's fishing industry) ; ...between latitudes 18 and 21 degrees south and is the principal region for prawn and shrimp fishing. This is followed by the Maputo Bay region and then Inhambane bay. The fisheries off the north coast have considerable potential but as yet have not been developed... Read more

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	Delagoa Bay ...Indian Ocean trade, and a route to the South African diamond mines and goldfields. Ownership was contested by the Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Boers until it was awarded by arbitration to Portugal in 1875. Delagoa Bay Delagoa Bay Delagoa Bay Read more
	Maputo Bay formerly Delagoa Bay , inlet of the Indian Ocean, c.55 mi (90 km) long and 20 mi (30 km...Africa; Maputo , the capital and chief port of Mozambique, is on the bay. Maputo Bay is a large deepwater harbor, with numerous quays to handle oceangoing... Read more
	Maputo ...Mozambique Baía da Lagoa, Lourenço Marques A province and a city first named ‘Bay of the Lagoon’ (in English, Delagoa Bay), but renamed after the Portuguese trader, Lourenço Marques, who explored the area in 1544... Read more
	Maputo ...Marques Port city (pop., 1997: 989,386), capital of Mozambique . It lies on the northern bank of Espirito Santo Estuary of Delagoa Bay , an inlet of the Indian Ocean. It derived its former name from the Portuguese trader who first explored the region... Read more
	Mozambique ...dirt roads. The city of Maputo is on the western shore of Delagoa Bay, formed by the confluence of five rivers, in the extreme...are excellent beaches north of Maputo, but those in the bay area of the city are polluted. Swimming at unprotected... Read more