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Dek Island
Dek Island (''Dek Deset'' in Amharic) is the biggest island (approximately 16 square kilometers in size) on Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It is administratively included in the Bahir Dar Zuria woreda of the Mirab Gojjam Zone. To the southeast of Dek is the much smaller Daga Island.
== Overview ==
It is home to several monasteries, the best known being Narga Selassie. Dek is accessible by the ferry that runs from Bahir Dar to Gorgora.〔As attested in a number of tour books, for example Philip Briggs, ''Guide to Ethiopia'', third edition (Old Saybrook: Globe Pequot Press, 2003), pp. 194f〕 Hormuzd Rassam mentions visiting the island in February 1866, describing that at the time it contained four villages with a church attached to each one. Rassam also repeats the story told to him how ''Dejazmach'' Kassa (the later Emperor Tewodros II) captured Dek in a single assault.〔Hormuzd Rassam, ''Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore of Abyssinia'' (London, 1869), vol. 1 pp. 315f〕
When R.E. Cheesman visited Dek in 1932 and 1933, he found that it was not strictly "monasterial", but with five churches each with a small village nearby. Cheesman continues his description:
: Three quarters of the island is given up to plough, the chief crops being dagusa and teff, both dwarf millets. Plough-land is divided into plots of about an acre, separated from each other by narrow hedges of scrub forest and big trees. The base of the island is scoriaceous lava in cubes, which are exposed all round the shore and washed by the waves, and identified as vesicular olivine basalt. On the top is a thin layer of red soil derived from the decay of the basalts. The fauna consists chiefly of birds and butterflies that can fly the 5 miles. Animals, as may be expected, are almost absent, though I trapped two kinds of rat; big pythons are numerous in the reed beds and are sometimes found exhausted out at sea and have been known to land on tankwas as unwelcome passengers. Mosquitoes on the islands were very bad.〔R.E. Cheesman, ("Lake Tana and Its Islands", ''Geographical Journal'' ), 85 (1935), p. 495〕
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