Nosy Be is an island off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Nosy Be is Madagascar's largest and busiest tourist resort. It has an area of 320.02 km2 (123.56 sq mi), and its population was 109,465 according to the provisional results of the 2018 Census.
A female black lemur and her offspring at the Lokobe Reserve, Nosy Be, November, 2001
Omura's whale off Nosy Be
The Sakalava are an ethnic group of Madagascar. They are found on the western and northwest region of the island, in a band along the coast. The Sakalava are one of the smallest ethnic groups, constituting about 6.2 percent of the total population, that is about 2,079,000 in 2018. Their name means "people of the long valleys." They occupy the western edge of the island from Toliara in the south to the Sambirano River in the north.
Sakalava people near Morondava
Sakalava ruler Andriantsoly (1820–1824).
Door with a carved crocodile, exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900.
Tromba gathering in Madagascar.