Saanane Island National Park
{{short description|Tanzanian National Park is an island in Lake Victoria }}
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Saanane Island National Park is a Tanzanian national park in Mwanza. The park is located on an island in Lake Victoria and can be reached by boat from the TANAPA offices on Capri Point in Mwanza town.{{cite web |url=http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/news/saanane_national_park.html |title=SAANANE ISLAND DECLARED NATIONAL PARK |date=3 September 2013 |publisher= TANAPA |access-date=5 September 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/21834-saa-nane-island-becomes-fully-fledged-park |title=Saa-Nane Island becomes fully fledged park |last1=Nkwame |first1=Marc |date=4 September 2013 |publisher=Daily News (Tanzania) |access-date=6 September 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=58958 |title=Saanane Island officially declared 16th National Park |last1=Philemon |first1=Lusekelo |date=5 September 2013 |publisher=IPP Media |access-date=6 September 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/features/21997-rocking-and-rolling-on-saa-nane-island-park |title=Rocking and rolling on Saa Nane Island Park |last1=Nkwame |first1=Marc |date=8 September 2013 |publisher=Daily News (Tanzania) |access-date=9 September 2013}} It is named after the local farmer and fisherman Mzee Saanane Chavandi.{{Cite web|title=Saanane Island National Park|url=https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a1d607cea3a64512a10b1eabdad44df9|access-date=2021-01-27|website=ArcGIS StoryMaps|date=17 June 2020 |language=en}}
History
The park, at the time known as "Saa Nane Island Game Sanctuary", was accidentally bombed during the air campaign of the Uganda–Tanzania War of 1978–1979.{{sfn|Cooper|Fontanellaz|2015|p=35}} On 29 March 1979,{{cite news| title = Tanzania Bombs Entebbe Airport, Damaging Runway| newspaper = The New York Times| page = 3| date = 2 April 1979| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/02/archives/tanzania-bombs-entebbe-airport-damaging-runway-scant-damage.html | access-date = 25 December 2019}} Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered one of his Tupolev Tu-22 bombers to attack Mwanza, hoping to thereby intimidate the Tanzanian government into calling off its invasion of Uganda.{{sfn|Pollack|2004|p=372}} The Tu-22 completely missed the city, however, and its five anti-personnel rockets instead hit the game sanctuary, slightly injuring one worker and killing several animals. According to journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, six antelopes as well as many birds were killed.{{sfn|Avirgan|Honey|1983|p=120}} In contrast, intelligence analyst Kenneth M. Pollack stated that "a large number of antelope" was killed.{{sfn|Pollack|2004|p=372}}
Fauna
The island is home to various species of mammals, including the velvet monkey, wild cat, zebra and rock hyrax, amongst others. It is the only place in Tanzania where De-brazza's monkeys are found.{{Cite web|title=Saanane Island National Park|url=https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a1d607cea3a64512a10b1eabdad44df9|access-date=2021-01-27|website=ArcGIS StoryMaps|date=17 June 2020 |language=en}} Over 40 species of bird have also been recorded here.{{Cite web|title=News {{!}}TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS|url=https://www.tanzaniaparks.go.tz/national_parks/saa-nane-islands-national-park|access-date=2021-01-27|website=www.tanzaniaparks.go.tz}}
See also
References
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= Works cited =
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- {{cite book| last1 = Avirgan| first1 = Tony| last2 = Honey| first2 = Martha| title = War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin| location= Dar es Salaam|publisher = Tanzania Publishing House| date = 1983| isbn = 978-9976-1-0056-3}}
- {{cite book |last1 = Cooper |first1 = Tom |last2 = Fontanellaz |first2 = Adrien |title= Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda 1971–1994 |date= 2015 |publisher= Helion & Company Limited |location= Solihull |isbn= 978-1-910294-55-0 }}
- {{cite book| last = Pollack| first = Kenneth Michael| title = Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991|location= Lincoln| publisher = University of Nebraska Press| date = 2004| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sSHYdGR_xvoC| isbn = 978-0-8032-0686-1}}
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Category:National parks of Tanzania
Category:2013 establishments in Tanzania
Category:Geography of Mwanza Region
Category:Protected areas established in 2013
Category:Tourist attractions in the Mwanza Region
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