The Seven Brothers Islands, also known as the Sawabi Islands or Seba Islands, form an archipelago in the Dact-el-Mayun section of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, the narrow waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The islands belong to Djibouti. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Seven Brothers Islands, also known as the Sawabi Islands or Seba Islands, is an archipelago in the Dact-el-Mayun section of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden).
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In 2025, the islands were designated as biosphere reserves by UNESCO.
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The archipelago proper is a chain of six volcanic islands spanning about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in a rough east-west line: West Island, or Red Island (H̱amra), 62 m high Double Island (Ounḏa Dâbali), 46 m high Low Island (Tolka), 17 m high Big Island (Kaḏḏa Dâbali), 114 m high East Island (H̱orod le ‘Ale), 83 m high South Island (‘Ounḏa Kômaytou), 47 m high The "seventh brother" is not an island, but the volcanic hill at the northern tip of the Ras Siyyan peninsula.
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The Seven Brothers Islands, also known as the Sawabi Islands or Seba Islands, is an archipelago in the Dact-el-Mayun section of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden)
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