Sibilobilo Safari Area comprises the Sibilobilo Islands in Lake Kariba

Lake Kariba

Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir. It lies 1300 kilometers upstream from the Indian Ocean, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe...

 and is part of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Estate.

History of the park

The safari area was proclaimed in 1975, prior to which it was a Controlled Hunting Area, since the empoundment of Lake Kariba.

Geography

Geography

Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

 and geology

Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

The Safari Area comprises 13 islands in Lake Kariba, the largest of which are Namembere, Namagwaba and Weather, and 2,130 ha of the Sengwa Peninsular.

The Sibilobilo area is underlain by rocks of the Mesozoic

Mesozoic

The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...

 Upper Karoo Group, predominantly sandstones and basalts. Specimens of Vulcanodon

Vulcanodon

Vulcanodon was a relatively small early sauropod dinosaur genus from the Early Jurassic of southern Africa. About 6.5 metres long, Vulcanodon was herbivorous and had unusually long bones of the first toe and large claws on the inside toes. The type species, V. karibaensis, was formally...

 karibaensis have been found in the Vulcanodon beds

Vulcanodon Beds

The Vulcanodon Beds is a geological formation in Zimbabwe. It dates back to the Early Jurassic.-Vertebrate fauna:...

. within the Batoka basalt.

Archaeological

Archaeology

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, historical

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 and cultural

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 sites

Concessions

Concession (contract)

A concession is a business operated under a contract or license associated with a degree of exclusivity in business within a certain geographical area. For example, sports arenas or public parks may have concession stands. Many department stores contain numerous concessions operated by other...

The Sibilobilo Safari Area is divided into two sections A (the islands) and B (the peninsular), which are let under concession to tour operators or for recreational hunting.