This island's city of Mahajanga once served as the capital of the Boina Kingdom, and its Tsingy de Bemaraha Nature Reserve is home to some unique kars
This island's city of Mahajanga once served as the capital of the Boina Kingdom, and its Tsingy de Bemaraha Nature Reserve is home to some unique karst formations. On this island, James Misson supposedly founded a pirate utopia called Libertatia which survived for around twenty-five years, and the Slovakian adventurer Maurice Benovsky was elected its king in the late eighteenth century. This island's Merina Queen Ranavalona I resisted foreign occupation, but after her death it was annexed by Europeans. This island's namesake plan was a suggested Nazi policy of relocating Jews to it, and during World War Two this was the site of Operation Ironclad, in which the Allies took it from Vichy France. For 10 points, name this island off the east coast of Africa, the world's fourth largest, with capital at Antananarivo.
This island's city of Mahajanga once served as the capital of the Boina Kingdom, and its Tsingy de Bemaraha Nature Reserve is home to some unique karst formations.
Republic of {Madagascar} [or {Malagasy} Republic]