Qualla: Taolagnaro https://qualla.com/taolagnaro en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Taolagnaro https://qualla.com/taolagnaro Taolagnaro: Introduction https://qualla.com/taolagnaro/ The French called it Fort Dauphin, after the boy who would become Louis XIV, but the Antanosy were here first and named the bay long before any European arrived. In 1643 the French East India Company raised a fortress on the headland above the harbor and made it the first permanent French settlement in Madagascar. The town that grew around it, Taolagnaro, still clings to that peninsula between the Indian Ocean and a wall of green mountains. Today most travelers reach it by air, because the roads inland are so battered that flying is simply easier than driving.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/5/9/3/taolagnaro-wk/m593-taolagnaro-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Taolagnaro: A Fort Built on Bad Faith https://qualla.com/taolagnaro/ The settlement began badly and got worse. Jacques de Pronis led the company's first expedition in 1642, and within months more than half his settlers were dead from fever at their first landing site. The survivors moved to the defensible headland over Tolagnaro bay and built the ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/5/9/3/taolagnaro-wk/m593-taolagnaro-a-fort-built-on-bad-faith.mp3 0:06 2 full Taolagnaro: The Scholar Who Named the Lost Beasts https://qualla.com/taolagnaro/ Flacourt governed Fort Dauphin from 1648 to 1655, and though his colony struggled, his curiosity outlasted it. In 1658 he published Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar, one of the first serious European studies of the island. Buried in its pages are descriptions of creatures th...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/m/5/9/3/taolagnaro-wk/m593-taolagnaro-cornered-by-mountains-and-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full Taolagnaro: Lemurs, Sapphires, and a Titanium Mine https://qualla.com/taolagnaro/ What pulls visitors to this far corner is wildlife. The Berenty Reserve, a thousand-hectare private sanctuary about 86 kilometers west, has been protected for over forty years and shelters six lemur species, the south's largest fruit-bat colony, and more than a hundred bird speci...

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