Salisbury Island, Durban

Salisbury Island
Geography
LocationDurban Harbour, Indian Ocean
Coordinates29°53′01″S 31°02′11″E / 29.88361°S 31.03639°E / -29.88361; 31.03639
Administration
South Africa

Salisbury Island is located inside the Port of Durban on the east coast of South Africa; it is a former island until the Second World War when construction of a naval base connected it to the mainland by a causeway. The island, then a mangrove-covered sandbank, was named after HMS Salisbury, the Royal Navy ship that surveyed the future harbour area for the newly established Port Natal Colony in the 1820s.

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