Mario @mario@social.privacytools.io

"HMS Antelope” at #FernandoPóo
Election of a New Sovereign
#Bioko

Antique wood engraved print, 1854

One Island, multiple Names
The Portuguese navigator Fernão do Pó, the first European to visit the island in 1472 named it #FormosaFlora (Beautiful Flower), but in 1494 it was renamed by Europeans as #FernãoDoPó and later the name of the island is changed from Pó to Póo, so the islands Name was #FernandoPóo. Under the Africanization policy of dictator Masie Nguema Biyogo it was renamed #MasieNguemeBiyogo Island. The island's native name in the Bube language is #Otcho. The modern name is #Bioko.

“The White Old Maid” by #NathanielHawthorne is his most tantalizing narrative experiments.

The tableau is memorably #gothic: illuminated by moonlight, through the window of a mansion, the corpse of a young man who lies upon his bed, flanked by two beautiful young women—one “proud and stately,” whom he had not chosen, “and the other, a soft and fragile thing,” who was destined to be his wife. The second—and final—tableau shows us the same two women reunited in old age.

https://www.clipzui.com/video/14h465u2r47424t484u4u3.html

The #NatureReserve around San Antonio de #Ureca is characterized to possess with 11 species of primates and large stretches of as-yet-unspoiled forest habitat the largest variety of #primates in the world; of course in proportion to its size and number.

Nevertheless, a rare sight is this large, dominant male #drill #monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus) - (not to be confused with their close relative #mandril (Mandrillus sphinx) - who is going to enjoy some #figs on Equatorial Guinea’s #Bioko Island

... Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface, ...

#Poetry by #WaltWhitman

#Malabo, formerly Santa Isabel, is the capital of #EquatorialGuinea and the province of Bioko Norte. It is located on the north coast of the Island of #Bioko, the formerly named #FernandoPó. In 2018, the city had a population of approximately 297,000 inhabitants.
The City is my home from April to Oktober.

#Annobón (Portuguese: Ano Bom, renamed Pagalu from 1973 to 1979) is an volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean near the Equator and one of the eight provinces of Equatorial Guinea with the capital San Antonio de Palé. It occupies an area of 17 square km and rises with the Lago a Pot, Quioveo and Macizo Santa Mina to an elevation of 613 metres.

Picture shows the provincial town San Antonio de Palé, the Lago a Pot and the 2013 opened airport.

Sunset on #Ureca Beach
#Bioko Island, #EquatorialGuinea

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood,
her children gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blow-
ing, cover'd with sweat,

All these I feel or am.

Isla #Bioco (Guinea Ecuatorial).
Mapas topográficos. 1981
Mapa de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial.
[Material cartográfico] formado y publicado por el I.G.N. de España. Escala 1:50.000
(E 8°24'01"-E 8°59'52"/N 3°53'52"-N 3°10'31")
Instituto Geográfico Nacional, [Madrid], 1981
https://www.ign.es/web/catalogo-cartoteca/resources/html/003696.html

Isla #Annobón
Mapas topográficos. 1982
Mapa de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial. [Material cartográfico]. Escala 1:10.000 (E 05°36'30''-E 05°39'44''/S 01°23'40''-S 01°29'00'') Instituto Geográfico Nacional, [Madrid], 1982

Map of #EquatorialGuinea with the two main Islands #Bioko and #Annobón
United Nations Map No. 3861 Rev. 4 from January 2005

https://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/eqguinea.pdf

Tactical Pilotage Chart (#TPC) of #Bioko Island; Original scale 1:500,000.
TPCs, originally created for the use of military air navigation, depict the types of data that would be useful for pilots, including topography, the locations of major cities, tranportation routes, and other ground features that would be visible from the air.

Top 10 wettest places in the world

10. Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China
9. Pu’u Kukui, Maui, Hawaii
8. Mount Waialeale, Kauai, Hawaii
7. Big Bog, Maui, Hawaii
6. Debundscha point, Cameroon
5. San Antonio de #Ureca, #Bioko Island, #EquatorialGuinea
4. Cropp River, New Zealand
3. Tutunendo, Colombia
2. Cherrapunji, Meghalaya State, India
1. Mawsynram, Meghalaya State, India.

And me, I life in #SanAntonioDeUreca, the fifth wettest Place on earth, with an average annual rainfall of 10,450 mm.

A thickly fruited fig tree provides nourishment for a Martin’s putty-nosed monkey and myself.
The rainy season lasts nearly all year in Bioko’s south; more than 400 inches of annual rainfall in some spots help a diverse garden grow.