Cape Sainte Marie

{{Short description|Southernmost point of Madagascar}} {{Infobox protected area | name = Cape Sainte Marie Special Reserve | alt_name = | iucn_category = IV | iucn_ref = <ref name = unep>UNEP-WCMC (2022). Protected Area Profile for Cap Sainte Marie from the World Database on Protected Areas. Accessed 28 August 2022. [https://www.protectedplanet.net/5041]</ref> | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = | map = Madagascar | map_width = 220 | map_alt = | map_caption = | relief = 1 | label = | label_position = | mark = | marker_size = | location = [[Androy]] Region, [[Madagascar]] | nearest_city = | coordinates = {{coord|25|34|00|S|45|31|00|E|type:city_region:MG|display=inline}} | coords_ref = | area_km2 = 62.98 | designation = special reserve | authorized = | created = | designated = 1962 | established = | disestablished = | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | visitation_ref = | governing_body = | administrator = | operator = | owner = | world_heritage_site = | website = | url = | child = | module = }}

'''Cape Sainte Marie''' ({{langx|mg|Tanjona Vohimena}}; {{langx|fr|cap Sainte-Marie}}), formerly known as '''Cape Romain''' and '''Cape St. Mary''',<ref>Robert Kerr. ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (Complete) Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery and Commerce by Sea and Land from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time.'' {{ISBN|9781465516121}}</ref> is the southernmost point of [[Madagascar]]. It is situated in the [[Androy]] region {{convert|42|km}} from [[Tsihombe|Tsiombe]]. It is the location of the Cap Sainte-Marie Special Reserve, a nature reserve which occupies most of the cape<ref>[http://www.wildmadagascar.org/conservation/parks/Cap_Sainte_Marie.html Wild Madagascar]</ref> and was created in 1962.<ref>[http://www.parcs-madagascar.com/fiche-aire-protegee_en.php?Ap=10 www.parcs-madagascar.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311041030/http://www.parcs-madagascar.com/fiche-aire-protegee_en.php?Ap=10 |date=March 11, 2013 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Landforms of Madagascar]] [[Category:Androy]] [[Category:Populated places in Androy]] [[Category:Special reserves of Madagascar]] [[Category:Headlands of Africa|Sainte Marie]] [[Category:Madagascar spiny thickets]]