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!!!Bissagos Islands

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A false-color satellite image of the Guinea-Bissau coastline shows numerous offshore islands, part of the Bissagos Islands [{GoogleMap location='Bissagos Islands' zoom='10'}]. Plains and Guinean mangroves, various kinds of trees and shrubs adapted to thrive in the saline coastal sediment habitats, dominate the coastline of Guinea-Bissau. 

In the shallow waters, silt - carried into the Atlantic Ocean by the Geba and other rivers - is deposited in various complex patterns.