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On the eastern coast of this island, a system of natural and artificial waterways comprise the Canal des Pangalanes. This island is home to jagged limestone needles in areas called tsingys (15[1])(“SEEN-geez”), whose name means “the place (15[1])where one cannot walk barefoot.” About eighty percent of the (15[1])world’s vanilla comes from this island. (15[5])This island’s western (15[1])Menabe region includes an (*) “avenue” of its native baobab trees. (10[1])Fossas and aye-ayes are native to this island that is separated from the mainland by the Mozambique Channel. Lemurs are native to, for 10 points, what island country off the eastern coast of Africa? ■END■

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