Changuu

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Changuu (also Kibandiko and Prison Iceland ) is a small island in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar, Tanzania. Its name comes from the Swahili which is the name of a fish, the one found there.

Geography

The island is oval in shape and extends from northwest to southeast over a length of 800 meters at its widest point it measures 230 m. Changuu is 5.6 kilometers from Zanzibar town and 5.1 km before Bububu on the west coast of Unguja. The coordinates are 6 ° 7'9 .29 "S 39 ° 10'1 .07" E.

History

Changuu was used by their owners, two Arab slave traders that they had been given by the first sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Said (1834-1870) as a prison island where they chastised some of their slaves before putting them on the slave market in Stone Town sold. After Changuu was briefly used as coral mining, bought in 1893 by the British Governor Lloyd Mathews the island to build a prison for violent offenders from the mainland. A quarantine station for yellow fever was in prison but instead set up as Stone Town threatened an epidemic that would have on all of East Africa can spill over. Since most ships came in the summer and in the winter so no new patients were admitted, it was already a popular holiday resort. For freshwater tanks were created and flooded pits from coral mining for swimming pools. In 1919 Changuu received by the Governor, their most famous residents, namely given four Aldabra giant tortoises. The turtles proliferated and increased their number greatly, but by theft of the animals decreased their numbers despite new imports. 1931 a new Quarantine complex was built for 904 ill. Meanwhile, the operation of the infirmary was set on the island at present are a hotel and apartments.