Madagascar, one of several island nations in Africa, can be found near Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. Though its capital, Antananarivo, is where the heart of the country's dining ...

Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo—not as far as Australia is from the U.S. Following Portuguese, Dutch and British pioneers, the French first got a foothold on the island ...

Madagascar's wildlife is almost wholly unique to the island. You've probably heard of ... landscape of the Ankarana reserve (see map). A spectacularly eroded limestone massif rising out of an ...

The giant Madagascar palm will be called Tahina spectabilis, which is Malagasy for blessed or to be protected. On the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, botanists have discovered a new species of ...