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	Bissagos Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bissagos Islands or Bijagós Archipelago are a group of some eighteen major islands and dozens more smaller ones in the Atlantic Ocean.
		In pre-colonial times the islands were central to the trade along the coast of West Africa and they built up a powerful navy.
		The islands of Bubaque, Bolama, and Caravela are the most populated and are visited by tourists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bijagos_Archipelago (212 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		Including its islands the AU is 11,667,000 square miles (30,217,000sq kms) and measures 5,000 miles (8,000 kms) from north to south, and about 4,600 miles from east to west.
		The Chagos islands are of such strategic importance that their whole population was expelled to make way for a military base controlled by Britain and the USA.
		The island of Mauritius, which lies about 500 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, is only 40 miles from north to south and 25 miles from east to west at its widest, yet with a population of over one million is one of the most densely populated areas of the world.
	www.africanfront.com /geography.php (1568 words)

	History of Guinea-Bissau - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century.
		In 1630, a "captaincy-general" of Portuguese Guinea was established to administer the territory.
		The administrative capital was moved from Bolama[?] to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.
	openproxy.ath.cx /hi/History_of_Guinea-Bissau.html (719 words)

	Bijagos Islands -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		In the Bijagós Islands of Guinea-Bissau, the Bidyogo carve rather simplified human figures seated on stools, bowls supported by human figures with human and animal forms on the lids, and staffs with figures on them.
		Islands are found in oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers.
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9079182 (767 words)

	Travelocity Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The island itself is very scenic, with colourful wildlife (lizards, butterflies, birds, etc) and lush forest, all surrounded by crystal-clear sea.
		Apart from Bubaque and Bolama, the islands are rarely visited by tourists and many of the Bijagó-speaking islanders have never ventured from their homes.
		The southern Orango group of islands are a national park harbouring saltwater hippos, crocodiles and birds in palm groves and woodland.
	www.travelocity.co.uk /TEU_destPrint/0,4191,TCYUK\|279,00.html (3732 words)

	Galway Advertiser Entertainment 26/02
		However, with this one exception, the island birdlife was not outstanding.
		It took us longer than we'd expected to leave Caraxe, the neighbouring island, due to a stubborn westerly swell to our stern at starboard, and by the time we found a reasonable anchorage it was quite dark.
		We had heard that Bijagos society was, at least as far as village life was concerned, matriarchal.
	www.galwayadvertiser.ie /ent/260298/page1.htm (1820 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The country includes about 60 offshore islands, among them the Bijagós (Bissagos) Islands.
		Export crops include peanuts, grown in the interior; palm products, raised on the island and in the coastal region; and cashew nuts.
		The status of Guinea-Bissau was changed from colony to overseas province in 1952; soon afterward an African nationalist movement arose, led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC).
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..gu110000.a (928 words)

	Les destinations
		Every island offers his spectacle and his typical landscape: virgin beaches of tourists, mangroves where one «gathers» oysters or shells, a bush subsaharienne where one becomes aware of the monkeys in the branches of a baobab or jackals fleeing in the mangrove.
		A group of around fifty islands flat and of îlots, formed of big sand benches and of fl vulcanics rocks, trimmed inextricable mangroves, with in background a luxurious vegetation.
		Only about ten islands shelter some towns where life remained such as she always had to be, or almost.
	stantruffaut.free.fr /destinations_en.htm (957 words)

	Guinea-Bissau Tours \| Guinea-Bissau Tour Guide \| iExplore
		It encompasses the adjacent Bijagós Islands and the island of Bolama.
		The Museum of African Artefacts is a treasure trove of traditional sculpture, pottery, weaving and basketware.
		Guinea-Bissau (formerly Portuguese Guinea) is located in West Africa, and is bordered to the north by Senegal and to the south and east by the Republic of Guinea.
	www.africa.com /dmap/Guinea-Bissau/Overview (210 words)

	Lobbying: No Scrapyard beach in Guinea-Bissau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The profits are not used to help the local population and the workers and instead disappear largely into the pockets of foreign shipowners.
		In Guinea-Bissau, the coastline of the island of Bolama is threatening to be turned into a contaminated scrapyard beach for old, toxic ships.
		In 1993 Unesco, the scientific and cultural arm of the United Nations, proclaimed the BijagÃ³s islands to be a nature reserve.
	www.novib.nl /content?type=Article&id=4587 (866 words)

	Africa -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Of these Madagascar, one of the largest islands in the world, is the most significant.
		Other smaller islands include the Seychelles, Socotra, and other islands to the east; the Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion, and other islands to the southeast; Ascension, St.
		Helena, and Tristan da Cunha to the southwest; Cape Verde, the Bijagós Islands, Bioko, and São Tomé and Príncipe to the west; and the Azores and the Madeira and Canary islands to the northwest.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9108290 (1736 words)

	Bijagos Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		More results on "Bijagos Islands" when you join.
		The exception to this definition is a land area of continental size, such as Australia, which is considered a nation-continent.
		A string of islands is called an archipelago, an...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9079182 (754 words)

	afrol News - Guinea-Bissau launches Bolama as world heritage site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The situation of Bolama and Bijagos was also mentioned by the UNESCO leader, who praised Bissau-Guinean plans for the extension of the Bijagos biosphere reserve to also include Bolama.
		The town of Bolama is located on the island with the same name, located between the Bijagos archipelago and the mainland, some 30 kilometres south of Bissau.
		Bolama, Bissau, the many mangrove islands of the Bijagos archipelago and the country's many unspoilt beaches however have a significant tourism potential.
	www.afrol.com /printable_article/15567 (540 words)

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	www.globalislands.net /resources/clearinghouse/clearinghouse.php?mfxsr=6 (131 words)

	Bijagos Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		islands of Guinea-Bissau, 30 miles (48 km) off the Guinea coast of western Africa.
		They compose an archipelago of 15 main islands, among which are Caravela, Carache, Formosa, Uno, Orango, Orangozinho, Bubaque, and Roxa.
		They are covered with a lush vegetation and have sandy beaches, and their principal cash crops are palm products.
	0-www.search.eb.com.library.uor.edu /eb/article-9079182 (91 words)

	Guinea Bissau (Spurl.net stream) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Snip: Guinea Bissau, republic in north-western Africa, bounded on the north by Senegal, on the east and south by Guinea, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
		Although there are beautiful beaches, fantasy tropical islands, and fishing and hunting, the main attraction in Guinea-Bissau is the people.
		Snip: Guinea-Bissau is situated on the west coast of Africa and is bordered to the north by Senegal, the east and southeast by Guinea and west southwest by the Atlantic Ocean.
	stream.spurl.net /Guinea_Bissau (213 words)

	Guinea Bissau Facts - Interesting Things & Famous Places
		This archipelago comprises a group of small islands, several of which are uninhabited, and most of which are very rarely visited by foreigners.
		Bolama, the original capital of Guinea-Bissau, is now a rather attractive ruin, and the island is worth seeing, with good beaches.
		The unspoilt island of Bubaque is easily accessible from Bissau and offers accommodation in the town.
	travel-island.com /interesting2places/guinea_bissau.html (993 words)

	senegal yacht charter and bareboat - Delta of Sine saloum, bijagos islands, cap verde, guinea bissau
		The Delta of Sine Saloum, 60 maritime miles from Dakar, exhibits 73000 hectares where the land of Saloum and the Atlantic fuse together.
		Each island offers its own unique performance and typical landscape: beaches void of tourists, mangrove swamps where you can find oysters or cockles, a sub-Saharan bush where you can catch a glimpse of monkeys swinging from the branches of a baobab or jackals escaping into the mangroves.
		Three weeks: Cap Verde, the Bijagos Islands in Guinea Bissau.
	www.sailing-adventure.com /afric/senegalus.html (245 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		There are no forest reserves; as forest and woodland are communally owned, there is no legal protection from felling, and it is the aim of the government to promote timber extraction to increase foreign revenue.
		km, or 8% of the country), are found along the coast and estuaries, and on the offshore islands.
		The largest aggregation of islands, the Bijagos Archipelago, consists of about 20 large permanently-inhabited islands, 26 seasonally-inhabited islands, and 37 uninhabited islands and islets, many of which have outstanding characteristics (Agardy, 1991).
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/countrysheets/gnb.html (1094 words)

	The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
		In west Africa (Mauritania to Namibia), the coastal zone spans a broad range of habitats and biota and includes the pristine islands of Bijagos Archipelago; the offshore island nations of Cape Verde and São Tomé and Principe; and the remote central Atlantic islands of San Helena and Ascension.
		The coastal zone of east Africa, including coastal wetlands, extends from Sudan to South Africa and includes the near-shore islands off the coast of Tanzania and Mozambique and the oceanic islands of Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, and Reunion.
		Coral reefs further south, extending from Kenya to the Tropic of Capricorn, are well distributed around most of the oceanic islands.
	www.grida.no /climate/ipcc/regional/030.htm (1300 words)

	Lighthouses of Guinea-Bissau
		Located on a headland on the southwestern side of the Ilha de Jeta, a large, mangrove-covered island off the town of Caio in the western part of Guinea-Bissau.
		Located on a small island south of the mouth of the Rio Géba estuary, about 30 km (20 mi) southwest of Bissau.
		Located on the east side of the island, which is part of the Arquipélago dos Bijagós Biosphere Reserve.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/gnb.htm (629 words)

	Rough Guides Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This is perhaps the world's most complex region - seventeen countries, from the tiny Cape Verde Islands to giant Nigeria - with a total area and population comparable to that of the continental United States.
		The Cape Verde Islands are immediately beguiling: volcanic outcrops and desert islands in the mid-Atlantic, with a scenery and lifestyle that make them hard to leave.
		Guinea-Bissau has its own island highlights - the Bijagos - luxuriant green forests in the warm, inshore sea, as different from the Cape Verdes as it's possible to imagine.
	www.roughguides.com /store/details.html?ProductID=10 (1965 words)

	CHAPTER 3. RESULTS OF THE SURVEYS; FINDINGS REGARDING THE COMPOSITION, DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF THE RESOURCES.
		The false scad (Decapterus rhonchus) dominated among the small pelagics on the shelf outside the Bijagos Islands in Guinea Bissau with smaller quantities of barracudas, lookdown (Selene dorsalis), chub mackerel and others.
		Size compositions of pooled samples of bumper, scads, jacks, barracudas and Spanish mackerel are given in Annex IV to show the prevailing sizes of these fish in the catches.
		The trigger fish dominated the pelagic community outside the Bijagos Islands.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/FNS/FN145E/ch04.htm (4169 words)

	Mission Life : About Guinea-Bissau
		The Papels and Bijagos were also very aggressive: the latter organized raiding parties from the islands to the mainland to capture Felupes, Baiotes, Manjacos, Papels and Beafadas, who were then sold directly to the Creoles or to African traders.
		The second period of the slave trade, beginning in the eighteenth century, was characterized by three major trends: increased French and British dominance in the Senegambia; Fulani encroachment of Guinea's eastern
		Groundnut plantations were established first on the Bijagos Islands using slave labor, and later spread to the mainland, where owners contracted for labor, employing most Manjacos, Brames, and Mandingas.
	www.missionlife.ca /guinea-bissau.html (3087 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The various groups mix easily in urban areas, where there is a notable lack of tribal tensions.
		HISTORY The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century.
		Before World War I, Portuguese forces under Maj. Teixeira Pinto, with some assistance from the Muslim population, subdued animist tribes and eventually established the territory's borders.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/guineabissau9404.html (2190 words)

	Guinea Bissau - General Information : Any Travels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		There are not many real sights, however.Bissau is a convenient point from which you can discover the rest of the country.
		The Bijagos islands can be reached by ferry and plane and hunting trips in the hinterland can also be arranged they used to be very popular with the Portuguese).
		The archipelago consists of some ten islands, all of them with a tropical beauty to them.
	www.anytravels.com /index.php?e=187&type=03 (575 words)

	Cichlid Forums - Press Release: Expedition to Bijagós reveals freshwater fish
		Bijagós is an archipelago of more than 80 islands located in Guinea Bissau, West Africa.
		The two expedition members, Miguel Figueiredo and Delfim Machado, explored Orango, one of the most remote islands of the archipelago.
		They have found twelve species of freshwater fish, some of them are still not identified.
	cichlidforums.com /showthread.php?s=&threadid=7306 (596 words)

	Bessie Fricker Brierley and Leslie Brierley, Guinea-Bissau, Missão Evangélica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		All three of them moved to the Cape Verde Islands and in June 1939 the two men, Cliff Gaye and Bill Griffiths, set off for Portuguese Guinea, ahead of Bessie.
		In Leslie's vision for the work--to begin in Bissau, then move on to Bolama, the Bijagos Islands, and Balanta country,--Leslie never forgot the Bijagos Islands.
		But it was only when reinforcements began to arrive in 1949 that missionaries could be placed on the islands.
	wesley.nnu.edu /DACB/DACBCDFILES/stories/guineabissau/brierley_bessie-leslie.html (2887 words)

	Ethnologue: Guinea Bissau
		(BIJAGO, BIJOGO, BIJOUGOT, BUDJAGO, BUGAGO, BIJUGA) [BJG] 24,500 (1993 Johnstone).
		Also Bijagos Islands, other former Portuguese possessions, and Gambia.
		Also in France and the Cape Verde Islands.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/GuiS.html (898 words)

	IRIN-West Africa Weekly Roundup No 71, 98.10.23
		Food and housing remained a problem and health supplies were expected to run low as more internally displaced people flood the town.
		The official said an undetermined number had gone to the Bijagos islands.
		The official said plans had been made to position 200,000 mt of food each in Cacheu, to the northwest and Bolama to the south, as well as 100,000 mt in Bubaque, on the Bijagos.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Newsletters/irinw_102398.html (3079 words)

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