TIL: the fascinating island of Socotra

Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands off the point of the horn of Africa. It is part of a separate tectonic plate and has been an island group for tens of millions of years. Its flora and fauna are diverse and unique in the world. Humans arrived very early and some of its female inhabitants have unique DNA in the world. Its inhabitants were converted to Christianity by St Thomas, shipwrecked on his way to Kerala, later they became Nestorians and were eventually forcibly converted to Islam by Saudi Wahhabis in the 1800s. It was known to most of the ancient civilisations.

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