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The largest offshore island is Madagascar; other islands include St. Helena and Ascension in the S Atlantic Ocean; S‹o TomŽ, Pr’ncipe, Annob—n, and Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea; the Cape Verde, Canary, and Madeira islands in the N Atlantic Ocean; and Mauritius, RŽunion, Zanzibar, Pemba, and the Comoros and Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

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