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    Lamu Island is a port, city, and island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately 150 miles from Mombasa. It is a part of the East...
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    Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated 341 kilometres (212 mi) by road northeast...
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    Lamu Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs. The islands lie between the towns of Lamu and...
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    273.1 km2 (2,422.1 sq mi), including the mainland and over 65 islands that form the Lamu Archipelago. The total length of the coastline is 130 km (81 mi)...
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    via Google Books. Hancock, Colin; Page, Thomas (17 February 2016). "Lamu island, off coast of Kenya, has lots of history but no cars for visitors". CNN...
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  • self-identifying as Waungwana (the civilised ones). In certain regions (e.g. Lamu Island), this differentiation is even more stratified in terms of societal grouping...
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    Howakil Islands Massawa Island Los Islands Tombo Island Bijagós Archipelago Lamu Island Manda Island Samuli Island Bushrod Island Providence Island Chizumulu...
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    literature. Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany was born on 27 November 1927 in Matondoni on Lamu Island. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his grandmother...
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  • near the village of Shela on Lamu Island, in what is now Kenya, just south of the larger village of Lamu. The people of Lamu won against superior forces...
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  • village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China the village of Shela on Lamu Island, Kenya Shela (artist), Japanese pop artist An old-fashioned Australian...
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    is the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, which lie between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga in the former Coast Province. The island is almost completely...
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    artifacts. These descendants of Zheng He's fleet occupy both Pate and Lamu Islands. Around 400 survivors of these 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors settled...
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    Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that...
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    Kiwayu (redirect from Kiwayuu Island)
    Kiwayuu (alternative spelling Kiwayu) is a small island in the eastern part of the Lamu Archipelago in the Kiunga Marine National Reserve in Kenya. Its...
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  • The Kore of Lamu are a small people living on Lamu Island on the northern Kenya coast. In 1985 they numbered between 200 and 250 people (Curtin 1985)...
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  • easterly direction through Witu to end at Mokowe in Lamu County, where the ferry connects to Lamu Island, a total distance of about 122 kilometres (76 mi)...
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    On December 29, 2004, she married Julian Ozanne, a documentarian, on Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya. She announced their separation on April 21,...
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  • Wituland (Lamu Island, owned by Kenya) Tripoli Italian East Africa Italian Eritrea Italian Somaliland (now Somalia) Italian Libya Arguin Island (in Mauritania)...
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  • The Takwa settlement is situated on the south side of Manda Island, in the Lamu District in the coastal province of Kenya. They are the ruins of a town...
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    Siyu is a settlement on the north coast of Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's Coast Province. The age of Siyu is not known, but it might...
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  • be seen on houses in the Lamu Islands. Haywood thought some of the residents to be of Arab or Persian descent. The islands are today mainly inhabited...
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  • from 1713. He decided to wage a war on Lamu in order to get the guns that the Portuguese had buried on Lamu Island, on Hedabu Hill. However, his boats were...
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  • in Upton Cum Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England – 14 January 2002, in Lamu Island) was a renowned white hunter and safari guide in Kenya. Allen earned...
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    or trading dhow with a broad hull similar to the jalibut, common in Lamu Island and the coast of Oman. It is also used in Bahrain for the pearl industry...
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    Lamu Fort is a fortress in the town of Lamu in northeastern Kenya. Originally situated on the waterfront, the fort today is located in a central position...
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  • Mokowe (category Populated places in Lamu County)
    about 3.5 kilometres (2 mi) away, from where boats leave for Lamu Island and the rest of the Lamu archipelago. The coordinates of Mokowe are 2°14'12.0"S, 40°51'18...
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    Muriya Islands (Oman) Lakshadweep Archipelago (India) Lamu Archipelago (Kenya) Madagascar Tanzania Bongoyo Island Mbudya Island Pangavini Island Mafia...
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  • Manda Airport (redirect from Lamu Airport)
    HKLU), also called Lamu Airport, is an airport in Kenya. Manda Airport is located on Manda Island in the Lamu Archipelago of Lamu County on the western...
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    Lamu Fort Library is a branch of the National Museums of Kenya. The Library was initiated in 1978 as a reference library for museum's staff and researchers...
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    Kipungani is a historic Swahili settlement on Lamu Island in Kenya's Coast Province. Historic Swahili Settlements Swahili architecture James de Vere Allen...
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