Delft Island

The remotest of Sri Lanka's inhabited islands is Delft, that's located withinside the Gulf of Mannar to the north-northwest of mainland Sri Lanka and to the south-southwest of Jaffna peninsula. Delft Island is a Divisional Secretariat of Jaffna District withinside the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

Besides the herbal splendor of the moderately populated island and a few ruins of a citadel buildings, there are few sights for travelers - however they're extremely abnormal ones, particularly first and major Sri Lanka's handiest herds of feral horses, descendants of Arabian stallions as soon as breeded right here for horse change with India; secondly an implementing specimen of a Baobab tree, a standard species of sub saharan Africa, that's a unprecedented sight in Sri Lanka. All landmarks of Delft Island – the buildings, the animals and the tree - are legacies of European colonial history.

Location: near the Jaffna city