Pemba Bay

Pemba Bay is a broad inlet on the northern Mozambican coast, its sheltered waters opening eastward to the Indian Ocean. Mangroves grow in protected parts of the bay where fine sediment settles, while coral reefs and the islands of the Quirimbas lie along the coast to the north. These waters formed part of a maritime world in which Swahili communities traded with their neighbours and with ships crossing the Indian Ocean.