Geography of the Comoros
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Map of all islands Location of Comoros （in circle） Map of Comoros and Southern Africa Map of Anjouan Map of Moheli The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest–southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel,
between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.
Still widely known by their French names, the islands officially have been called by their Swahili names by the Comorian government.
They are Grande Comore （Njazidja）, Mohéli （Mwali）, Anjouan （Nzwani）, and Mayotte （Mahoré）.
The islands' distance from each other—Grande Comore is some 200 kilometers from Mayotte, forty kilometers from Mohéli, and eighty kilometers from Grande Comore—along with a lack of good harbor facilities, make transportation and communication difficult.
Comoros are sunny islands.
The islands have a total land area of 2,236 square kilometers （including Mayotte）, and claim territorial waters of 320 square kilometers.
Mount Karthala （2316 m） on Grande Comore is an active volcano.
From April 17 to 19, 2005, the volcano began spewing ash and gas, forcing as many as 10,000 people to flee.
Comoros is located within the Somali plate.
Grande Comore is the largest island, sixty-seven kilometers long and twenty-seven kilometers wide, with a total area of 1,146 square kilometers.
The most recently formed of the four islands in the archipelago, it is also of volcanic origin.
Two volcanoes form the island's most prominent topographic features: La Grille in the north, with an elevation of 1,000 meters, is extinct and largely eroded; Kartala in the south, rising to a height of 2,361 meters, last erupted in 1977.
A plateau averaging 600 to 700 meters high connects the two mountains.
Because Grande Comore is geologically a relatively new island, its soil is thin and rocky and cannot hold water.
As a result, water from the island's heavy rainfall m...
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