Talk:Socotra
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The article needs a locator map. OverMyHead 16:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Deletion
I think this article was very helpful and I would oppose its deletion. Maybe a revision is in order, but I think that deletion is unnecessary. I am a person who browses wikipedia quite often and I found this bit of information very interesting. Especially because I plan on living in a low-key place such as Socotra in my later years. Thank you for considering my opinion.
-Brett, Virginia, USA
[edit] Austria?
Hi in the history section it mentions that socotra was breifly ruled by austria.i have been able to find no evidence to support this.Please could someone explain.
King Tom-U.K
Good question. The Austrian Empire having been transcontinental depends upon this. Maybe there is a German or Arabic-language website documenting this. Heff01 21:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Austria
Really, in 1860-70s when Austrian Empire hes a fleet there was an idea to take Soqotra to be an Austrian territory and this forced the British Empire to sign a treaty with the Qish and Soqotra Sultan in 1876 (the island bacame a British Protectorate in 1886). See Farouk Osman Abatha's book "Aden..." (in Arabic) and Walter Dostal's works. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.141.189.224 (talk) 17:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Malachoria
I'm not sure if this unsourced stub is factual or a hoax, but it refers to this same island under a different name (or perhaps a nationalist movement there). Can somebody verify it, and if necessary, either improve that article (with sources, preferably), or if it is simply another name, merge it into this article and make the page a redirect? Rigadoun (talk) 21:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Taken care of. I used to live in Yemen, and went to Socotra several times. There is no such thing as "Malachoria." The people (socotris) refer to their island as Socotra, and nothing but. There is no nationalist movement, either. gvilweevil 12:27, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have {{prod}}ed the Malachoria article, as it may be a hoax. Rigadoun (talk) 16:45, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Island of Africa?
I noticed that Socotra is in the category 'Islands of Africa', despite being part of Yemen, which is an Asian country.--HisSpaceResearch 04:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Socotra is clearly closer to Somalia than the Yemen mainland and is geographically African, but geopolitically Asian. See the transcontinental country article. Heff01 21:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Confusing Statement
"The archipelago was once part of the supercontinent of Gondwana and detached during the Middle Pliocene (ca 6 million years ago)". This makes it sound like Socotra was part of Gondwana only 6 millions years ago. That can't be right; the world was basically in it's current configuration 6 millions years ago, and Gondwana was, by then, ancient history. Probably needs rephrasing but I'm not sure what the writer really intended to say.
