'Island of Goa'), locally known as Watólofu, also known as Saint George Island (Portuguese: Ilha São Jorge), is a small archetypal desert island, with a flat rocky brown coral reef outcrop with dense borderline vegetation, white sand beach and a lighthouse.

[4] The island has a solar powered lighthouse located at the entrance of the Mossuril Bay,[5] it is used as a guide for the offshore vessels en route to Island of Mozambique and is still in service, run by the lighthouse keeper and his family that lived in Goa, India for more than two decades.

It is accessible by the public, one can witness the panoramic view from the top of the lighthouse which is next to the island's beach.

[7] The case study was examined by a team of technicians from Instituto Nacional do Mar (INAMAR).

A mass was celebrated in the Archdiocese of Nampula for the victims along with local awareness campaigns that were carried out to explain the islanders and tourists to immediately stop visiting these two islets.