what island is located about 240 miles off southeatern coast of africa?

Answer 1

Madagascar ? just guessing . . .

Answer 2

Looks like Madagascar. See below. Hope this helps!

Jill


The soft-eyed, soft-voiced people of Madagascar speak a liquid language in which there is no word for time. Under French administration, however, most of the Malagasy (as ethnologists call them) have had a few years' schooling. Some have even taken posts in the Colonial Government and learned the European world view. They know what time is. and how fast it can run. Last week they wondered how Madagascar fitted into the Axis time scheme.

Fourth largest of the world's islands, Madagascar is 241,094 square miles in area. It lies only 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, athwart the United Nations' sea lane around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf, to India and Australia. If Japan had Madagascar, the Axis would threaten the whole Indian Ocean. Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo—not as far as Australia is from the U.S.