Bazaruto Island

Bazaruto Island Map

Thick forests of casuarinas, coconut palms and cashew nut trees grow on the shores of Bazaruto Island. The island is the largest in the Bazaruto Archipelago, with towering dunes and large inland lakes frequented by many water birds and even crocodiles.

Fishermen the world over know Bazaruto to be one of the best spots for catching marlin, kingfish and other large game fish. The island, which has the excellent Indigo Bay Island Resort on its coast, is particularly good for surf fishing, and there are rubber ducks to take divers to various reefs along the coast.

Bazaruto Island has a hundred-year-old lighthouse on the northern point, which serves as a signal to the many ships which pass by the channel up the east coast of Africa.

During the Second World War, Japanese submarines waited here for Allied ships carrying troops and provisions to the battlegrounds in the north. One got lucky in June 1942, torpedoing a Yugoslav freighter "Supetar" and sinking her close to the north point of the island.

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