Koma Island
Island in Pwani Region of Tanzania
7°32′37″S 39°23′45″E / 7.54361°S 39.39583°E / -7.54361; 39.39583 Tanzania
Koma Island also known as Charka Island (Kisiwa cha Koma, in Swahili) is an island located in Kisiju ward of Mkuranga District in southern Pwani Region of Tanzania. The only historical source to mention this island is by Arab navigator Ibn Majid in 1470. In 1996, Felix Chami discovered a small Early Iron Age (EIA) or Early Iron Working (EIW) site on Koma island. The TIW (triangular incised ware) pottery sherds, however, were absent in the island site, indicating that it was eventually abandoned. The Bantu settlement existed from the third to the sixth centuries.[1][2][3]
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Mkuranga District
Capital: Mkuranga
- Bupu
- Kimanzichana
- Kisiju
- Kitomondo
- Lukanga
- Magawa
- Mbezi
- Mkamba
- Mkuranga
- Mwalusembe
- Nyamato
- Panzuo
- Shungubweni
- Tambani
- Vikindu
- Kiparang'anda
- Njianne
- Vianzi
- Zaramo
- Ndengereko
- North Fanjove Island
- Kwale Island
- Chokaa Islands
- Koma Island
- Pemba Juu Island
- Kogamimba River
- Mbezi River (Mkuranga)
- Mzinga River
- Vikindu
- Vikindu Forest Reserve
- Masanganya Forest Reserve
- Malenda Forest Reserve
- Mangrove Forest Reserve of Mkuranga
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