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Folks, I need the full list of Somali Islands. I've these four listed below and need your help with the rest of islands:

(1) Bajuni Islands (near Kismayu)
(2) Koyama Island
(3) Sa'ad ad-Din Islands (near Seila)
(4) Kudha island (near Kismayu)
(5) I am looking for the island off Maid, in Sanaag. This island is made out of bird Guano.
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Please add the names of Islands that you are aware of. Thanks!

Here is the list of islands in Zaylac and lughaya districts.

1. Sacaadadiin the biggest in Somaliland seven km square.
2. Ceebeed
3. Koomaali
4. Masaa,ikh twin islans
5. Sulekhtiya
6. Dureen
7. Abu milix
8. Dahrada
9. Shimbiraale
10. Shariifada

Reference: Axmed xuseen warsame, Somaliland national television reporter.

I like ceebaad loool it looks like a shoe, sacadadin looks like someone's head lol I have seen one that looks like a baby with the umbilical cord attached to it lol. The Zaila port surroundings look like a flying bird. Ilahay cimiloyinkisa waa yaab!

Waar horta Yusuf a daa waxan iga yaqaanee who has claims to these islands, clan wise? Coz I am just gonna say reerka thats given lol but also in terms of legal ownership yaa iska leh mesha I once heard Rayale sold it to some wealthy Isaaq guy?

Mida kale waxaso magacyo ah man maqalba, coz I am thinking some of them can't be really classed as real islands.

Dont forget xaafun, although connected to the land slightly. This was italian colonisers first capital of somalia.

afun has been identified as the ancient trading port of Opone, which was described in the 1st century CE Greek travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Merchants from as far afield as Indonesia and Malaysia passed through the settlement. By the 50 CE, the area was well known as a center for the cinnamon trade, along with the barter of cloves and other spices, ivory, exotic animal hides, and incense. It also traded in tortoise-shells.[1]

During the early modern period, Hafun was a part of the Majeerteen Sultanate's realm.

In 1930, an Italian firm invested capital to exploit salt deposits in Hafun and Hurdiyo. By 1933-34, the Hafun salt works were producing more than 200,000 metric tons of salt, most of which was exported to the Far East.[2]

Following independence in 1960, the town was made the center of the official Hafun District.

Somaliman% wrote:

Dont forget xaafun, although connected to the land slightly. This was italian colonisers first capital of somalia.

afun has been identified as the ancient trading port of Opone, which was described in the 1st century CE Greek travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Merchants from as far afield as Indonesia and Malaysia passed through the settlement. By the 50 CE, the area was well known as a center for the cinnamon trade, along with the barter of cloves and other spices, ivory, exotic animal hides, and incense. It also traded in tortoise-shells.[1]

During the early modern period, Hafun was a part of the Majeerteen Sultanate's realm.

In 1930, an Italian firm invested capital to exploit salt deposits in Hafun and Hurdiyo. By 1933-34, the Hafun salt works were producing more than 200,000 metric tons of salt, most of which was exported to the Far East.[2]

Following independence in 1960, the town was made the center of the official Hafun District.

Good information Somaliman%. An ancient port city, salt resources, and capital city of Hafun district. Hopefully its extended entrance into see will be developed with a modern port and paved the roads to the rest of Bari region.