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Comoro Islands, the Glossary

The Comoro Islands or the Comoros (Comorian: Komori; Juzur al-Qomor; Les Comores) are an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the southeastern coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and northwest of Madagascar.^[1]

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Comoros archipelago
Freshwater ecoregions of Africa
Volcanoes of the Indian Ocean

African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.

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Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi

Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi (أحمد عبدالله محمد سامبي, born 5 June 1958) is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, and former President of Comoros.

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Anjouan

Anjouan is an autonomous volcanic island in the Comoro Islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, part of the Union of the Comoros. Comoro Islands and Anjouan are Comoros archipelago.

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Anjouan scops owl

The Anjouan scops owl (Otus capnodes) is an owl endemic to the island of Anjouan in the Comoro Islands.

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Antelope

The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe.

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Anticyclone

An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to a cyclone).

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).

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Avicennia marina

Avicennia marina, commonly known as grey mangrove or white mangrove, is a species of mangrove tree classified in the plant family Acanthaceae (formerly in the Verbenaceae or Avicenniaceae).

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Azali Assoumani

Azali Assoumani (غزالي عثماني; born 1 January 1959) is a Comorian politician and military officer who has served as the President of the Comoros from 2002 to 2006 and again since 2016, except for a brief period in 2019.

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Île du Lys

Île du Lys, also known as Le Lys or Ile du Lise, is one of the Glorioso Islands, north-west of Madagascar.

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Banc du Geyser

Banc du Geyser (also Banc du Geysir) is a mostly submerged reef in the Mozambique Channel's northeastern part, northeast from Mayotte, southwest of the Glorioso Islands and off the northwestern coast of Madagascar.

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Banc Vailheu

Banc Vailheu is a submerged volcano in the Comoro Islands group. Comoro Islands and Banc Vailheu are Volcanoes of the Indian Ocean.

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Bantu peoples

The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Blainville's beaked whale

Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the dense-beaked whale, is believed to be the widest ranging mesoplodont whale.

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Bottlenose dolphin

The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops. They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins.

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.

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Cananga odorata

Cananga odorata, known as ylang-ylang or cananga tree, is a tropical tree that is native to the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Queensland, Australia.

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Clove

Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum.

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Coelacanth

Coelacanths (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia.

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Coelacanth National Park

Coelacanth National Park is a national park off the main island of the Comoros.

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Common brown lemur

The common brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus) is a species of lemur in the family Lemuridae.

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Comorian languages

Comorian (Shikomori, or Shimasiwa, the "language of islands") is the name given to a group of four Bantu languages spoken in the Comoro Islands, an archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar. Comoro Islands and Comorian languages are Comoros archipelago.

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Comorian society

Comoran society and culture reflect the influences of Islam and the traditions of East Africa.

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Comoro rousette

The Comoro rousette (Rousettus obliviosus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae endemic to the Comoros Islands.

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Comoros

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Comoro Islands and Comoros are Comoros archipelago.

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Copra

Copra (from) is the dried, white flesh of the coconut from which coconut oil is extracted.

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Coral reef

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone).

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Cyclone Gafilo

Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Gafilo was both the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean and the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2004.

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David Livingstone

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.

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Dugong

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.

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Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport

Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport is an airport located in Pamandzi, Mayotte, France on the southern tip of the island of Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), east of Grande-Terre, the main island of Mayotte.

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Ecosystem service

Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems.

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Elephant

Elephants are the largest living land animals.

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled international flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fraser's dolphin

Fraser's dolphin or the Sarawak dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) is a cetacean in the family Delphinidae found in deep waters in the Pacific Ocean and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Fringing reef

A fringing reef is one of the three main types of coral reef.

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Giraffe

The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa.

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Glorioso Islands

The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands (Îles Glorieuses or officially also Archipel des Glorieuses) are a group of islands and rocks totaling.

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Grande Comore

Grande Comore is an island in Comoros off the coast of Africa. Comoro Islands and Grande Comore are Comoros archipelago.

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Grande-Terre, Mayotte

Grande-Terre (Maore or Nyambo Bole in Shimaore) is the main island of the French overseas region of Mayotte.

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Green sea turtle

The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.

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Guava

Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.

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Humblot's flycatcher

Humblot's flycatcher (Humblotia flavirostris) or the Grand Comore flycatcher, is a small passerine bird belonging to the Old World flycatcher family.

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Javan mongoose

The Javan mongoose (Urva javanica) is a mongoose species native to Southeast Asia.

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Karthala scops owl

The Karthala scops owl (Otus pauliani), also known as the Grand Comore scops owl or Comoro scops owl, is a small scops owl endemic to the island of Grande Comore in the Comoro Islands.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Lamu

Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

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List of heads of state of the Comoros

This article lists the heads of state of the Comoros, since the country gained independence from France in 1975.

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Livingstone's fruit bat

Livingstone's fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), also called the Comoro flying fox, is a megabat in the genus Pteropus.

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Low-pressure area

In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Malagasy peoples

The Malagasy (Malgache) are a group of Austronesian-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the island country of Madagascar.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mayotte

Mayotte (Mayotte,; Maore,; Maori), officially the Department of Mayotte (Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. Comoro Islands and Mayotte are Comoros archipelago.

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Melon-headed whale

The melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), also known less commonly as the electra dolphin, little killer whale, or many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed whale of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).

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Mohéli

Mohéli, also known as Mwali, is an autonomously-governed island that forms part of the Union of the Comoros. Comoro Islands and Mohéli are Comoros archipelago.

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Mohéli National Park

Mohéli National Park is a national park in the Comoros.

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Mongoose lemur

The mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) is a small primate in the family Lemuridae, native to Madagascar and introduced to the Comoros Islands.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Moroni, Comoros

Moroni (Mūrūnī) is the largest city, federal capital, and seat of the government of the Union of the Comoros, a sovereign archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean.

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Mount Karthala

Mount Karthala or Karthola (القرطالة Al Qirṭālah) is an active volcano and the highest point of the Comoros at above sea level.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mozambique Channel

The Mozambique Channel (Canal du Mozambique, Lakandranon'i Mozambika, Canal de Moçambique) is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique.

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Music of the Comoros

The Comoros is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, mostly an independent nation but also including the French territory of Mayotte.

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Overseas collectivity

The French overseas collectivities (collectivité d'outre-mer abbreviated as COM) are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status.

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Overseas departments and regions of France

The overseas departments and regions of France (départements et régions d'outre-mer,; DROM) are departments of the French Republic which are outside the continental Europe situated portion of France, known as "metropolitan France".

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Overseas territory (France)

The term overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer or TOM) is an administrative division of France and is currently only applied to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

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Pamanzi

Pamanzi, also known as Petite-Terre (literally "Little Land" in French), is an island of Mayotte, an overseas department and region of France, and is Mayotte's second-largest island after Grande-Terre.

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Pantropical spotted dolphin

The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is a species of dolphin found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans.

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Pemba Island

Pemba Island (الجزيرة الخضراء al-Jazīra al-khadrāʔ, literally "The Green Island"; Pemba kisiwa) is a Tanzanian island forming part of the Zanzibar Archipelago, lying within the Swahili Coast in the Indian Ocean.

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Perennial stream

A perennial stream is a stream that has continuous flow of surface water throughout the year in at least parts of its catchment during seasons of normal rainfall, Water Supply Paper 494.

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Phlogopite

Phlogopite is a yellow, greenish, or reddish-brown member of the mica family of phyllosilicates.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Pygmy killer whale

The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is a poorly known and rarely seen oceanic dolphin.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Rhizophora mucronata

Rhizophora mucronata (loop-root mangrove, red mangrove or Asiatic mangrove) is a species of mangrove found on coasts and river banks in East Africa and the Indo-Pacific region.

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Risso's dolphin

Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is a dolphin, the only species of the genus Grampus.

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Scolopendra

Scolopendra (through Latin from Greek σκολόπενδρα, skoˈlo.pen.ðɾa) is a species-rich genus of large tropical centipedes of the family Scolopendridae.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.

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Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

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Shisiwani National Park

Shisiwani National Park (French: Parc National Shisiwani) is a national park along the Sima Peninsula in the eastern Comoros.

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Short-finned pilot whale

The short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) is one of the two species of cetaceans in the genus Globicephala, which it shares with the long-finned pilot whale (G. melas).

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Somali people

The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.

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Sperm whale

The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.

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Spinner dolphin

The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world.

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Swahili culture

Swahili culture is the culture of the Swahili people inhabiting the Swahili coast.

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Tailless tenrec

The tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), also known as the common tenrec, is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.

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Thalassodendron ciliatum

Thalassodendron ciliatum, the sickle-leaved cymodocea, is a species of plant in the Thalassodendron genus of seagrasses in the family Cymodoceaceae.

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Tropical bottlenose whale

The tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale or Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position.

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Ultramafic rock

Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoro_Islands

Also known as Comoros Archipelago, Comoros Island, Comoros Islands, Comoros-Mayotte, Iles Comores.

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See also

Comoros archipelago

Freshwater ecoregions of Africa

Volcanoes of the Indian Ocean

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