PRIME MAG - AIR MAD - JULY 2018 -all- LO-RES

DESTINATIONS
This southernmost cape of
Madagascar was first named
as “Cap Sainte Marie” in 1546
by the French priest and
cartographer, Pedro Descellier.
Cape Sainte Marie also called
"The Gate of Mozambique", offers
an extraordinary panoramic view
across the Mozambique Channel
and the Indian Ocean. You can,
while enjoying the magnificent
landscapes, walk on the cliffs, into
limestone caves, look for aepyornis
eggs fossils in the sand dunes and
visit the lighthouse.
Next to Cape St Marie, on
the Mozambique Channel side,
stretches 35 kilometers wide the
"Bay of Lavanono". The "Cape St
Marie and the Lavanono Bay" are
an exceptional, unique, authentic
place, a naturally preserved site
in the heart of "Androy - the land
of thorns". Lavanono, means long
boobs! (Lava = long / nono = breast)
The "nono" is a mound, "sand loaf"
limestone 80 m high, which served
as a geographical reference point
to the seafarers since the sixteenth
century. This bay of Cap St Marie /
Lavanono sheltered the Portuguese
galleons on their "way to India" to
protect themselves from the strong
Southern winds. The aepyornis /
(elephant bird) and the sea and land
turtles provided a welcome change
in menu for the sailors until their
next stopover.
Photo © : mapio.net
Photo © : ONTM
Photo © : Gigi Lavanono
Photo © : Gigi Lavanono
An extraordinary
panoramic
view across the
Mozambique
Channel and the
Indian Ocean.
Une vue
panoramique
extraordinaire
sur le canal du
Mozambique et
l’océan Indien.
From the cliffs of Cap St Marie
to the north of Lavanono Bay there
is a sediment plateau composed of
substances from the ocean floor.
Looking more closely, this place contains
fossilized volcanic lava, basalt, iron,
marine fauna and flora. The reason for
all this unique merger in sediments
became clear in 2006, when a crater of
30 km in diameter and 3810 m depth
was discovered in the middle of the
Indian Ocean. This impact of an asteroid
about 4800 years ago caused a tsunami
of estimated 180 m height. This gigantic
wave shaped this plateau of Cape St
Marie in Lavanono by depositing all
these remains from the bottom of the
ocean. At this cape, currently only a
small fishing village exist.
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