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Comoros

A living coelacanth was first caught off South Africa in 1938. Scientists offered rewards for another, but it took until 1952 to find one, in the waters of the Comoros, where the fish lives.

Five things to know about the Comoros

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Comoros, small islands in the Indian Ocean between northern Mozambique and Madagascar. See the Comoros on a map.
  2. Its capital, Moroni, shares the largest of its three main islands with an active volcano, Mount Karthala.
  3. Its name comes from the Arabic for 'islands of the moon'.
  4. They are called the 'perfumed islands': ylang-ylang flowers are grown here for their scented oil.
  5. A fish known only from fossils, and thought extinct for 66 million years, lives in the deep sea off its shores.

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