It strengthened to a severe tropical storm as it approached the Madagascar coast, and made landfall north of Mananjary.
During the Malagasy Uprising of 1947, in Mananjary hundreds of Malagasy were killed, among them 18 women and a group of prisoners thrown from aircraft.
Fianarantsoa was placed by the World Monuments Fund on its 2008 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites because many of the buildings in the old town are in dire need of repair.
Karenjy is an automobile manufacturer based in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar.
The precise location is not known, however, most sources say it stretched from the Bay of Antongil to Mananjary, including Île Sainte Marie and Foulpointe.
Little is known about the species, because it was identified with only a lower jaw and limb bones, recovered from a site near Mananjary on the east coast of Madagascar.
Fulgence Rabemahafaly (born 1951), Archbishop of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar