Mbamba Islands
m-BAHM-bah EYE-landz (approx.)
The atlas records 12 collection-point forms from Mbamba Islands, across 11 genera.
12.0669°S 34.7489°E
Mbamba Islands are a group of islands off the Malawian shore, about 1 km south-south-west of Membe Point.
Where it is
Mbamba Islands is in open water about 3.7 mi off the eastern shore, in the central third of Lake Malawi (179 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Membe Point 0.6 mi north · Madimba Bay 0.7 mi north · Mbuzi Islands 0.7 mi south
Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.
The water
Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~191 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1249 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.
Temperature: ESA Climate Change Initiative, Lakes_cci v3.0 (Asfour et al. 2026; doi:10.5285/a56dba09df8a42ec9fba8b8c7a5e1f69). Chemistry on this page remains the lake's own.
Each entry below is the population of that species recorded here — the form aquarists keep and breed as a distinct, provenance-labelled line. Crossing forms from different collection points is considered hybridisation in the hobby.