Chisi Island

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Chisi Iceland is an island in Chilwa Lake Malawi. The island is located near the western shore of the lake and is the continuation of a small chain of hills. In the east Chisi adjacent to the open waters of Lake Chilwa, the West is surrounded by flat marshland. Due to the changing water level of the lake and the shallow depth of the surrounding waters also the size of the island (an average of 12-21 km ² ) changes. In particularly low water level Chisi Iceland is within walking distance from the mainland.

On the island of about 1,500 people ( 1591 census in 1998), but a part of the population does not live permanently on Chisi. About a third of the population works in agriculture, two thirds in other areas, mainly as a fisherman. The majority of people belonging to the ethnic group of the Nyanja, the illiteracy rate is 13% low. On Chisi various traditional rules for the sustainable use of natural resources have developed, which have been preserved by the relative remoteness of the region to this day. A 2007 study collected this local knowledge.