Seven Brothers (islands)

Seven Brothers (islands)

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Seven Brothers is the English name given to the Sawabi Islands, (Djibouti), a group of small islands off of the eastern coast of the Horn of Africa, in the Dact-el-Mayun section of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, located at coord|12.4605556|N|43.4241667|E.

These islands, along with Perim, may be the "stepping stones" for one or more of the out-of-Africa migrations of homo species in antiquity.


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