Rubondo Island National Park – Africa's Most Extraordinary Island Sanctuary

Rubondo Island National Park is one of Tanzania’s most unique, most remote, and most extraordinary national parks — a magnificent and largely undiscovered island wilderness destination that stands completely apart from every other national park in Tanzania in terms of its fascinating ecological history, remarkable wildlife diversity, and extraordinary natural beauty.

Located in the southwestern corner of Lake Victoria — Africa’s largest lake and the world’s second largest freshwater lake — in the Geita Region of northwestern Tanzania, Rubondo Island National Park encompasses Rubondo Island and several smaller surrounding islands covering a total area of 457 square kilometres — of which approximately 240 square kilometres is the forested island itself and the remainder is the surrounding lake waters.

Rubondo Island is one of the most biologically fascinating and ecologically extraordinary places in all of East Africa — a living laboratory of conservation science and wildlife management whose unique history as a sanctuary for introduced animal species has created a remarkable and entirely unique wildlife community found nowhere else on Earth.