Now called Bioko ( also spelled Bioco ), Fernando Poo is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea.

Both are part of an extinct volcanic mountain range, which also includes the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea to the north and Mount Cameroon to the west.

Malabo () is the capital of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island ( formerly Fernando Pó ) on the rim of a sunken volcano .. With a fast growing population of 155, 963 ( 2005 ) it is also the second largest city in the country, after Bata in Río Muni on the African mainland.

The Bubi people, also known as Voove, Pove, Bobes, Boobes, Boobees, Boobies, Boubies, Adeeyahs, Adeejahs, Adijas, Ediyas, Eris, Fernando Poans, Fernandians, and Bantu Speaking Bubi, are an African ethnic group of the Bantu group, who are indigenous to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Preuss's monkey ( Cercopithecus preussi ), also known as Preuss's guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives terrestrially in mountainous ( up to 2500 m ) forests of eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon and Bioko in Equatorial Guinea.

Malabo is part of a wider bay that represents most of the northern coast of Bioko ; it stretches from Europe Point in the west ( home to the airport ), to barren lands in the east.

* Fernando Po ( island ) in Equatorial Guinea, now called Bioko

These voyages revealed the archipelagoes of Bissagos Islands where the Portuguese were defeated by native people in 1535, Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Fernando de Noronha, Corisco, Elobey Grande, Elobey Chico Annobon Island, Ascension Island, Bioko Island, Falkland Islands, Principe Island, Saint Helena Island, Tristan da Cunha Island and Sargasso Sea.

In 1930 they sold human labour to Spanish colonialists on Fernando Po ( now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea ), leading to a five-year U. S. and British boycott of Liberia.

The island of Fernando Pó had its name Africanized after him to Masie Ngueme Biyogo Island ; upon his overthrow in 1979, its name was again changed to Bioko.

Rivas was born in Batete, a village in southern Fernando Po ( today Bioko ) near Luba.

* Fernando Poo, former colonial name of the island of Bioko

He was commissioned in the field and awarded an immediate Military Cross for his part in Operation Postmaster the capture of three Italian and German ships from the neutral Spanish island of Fernando Po now known as Bioko, in the Gulf of Guinea.

One of the early expansions of Bantu was the migration of the Bubi to Fernando Po ( Bioko ).

The earliest post office was set up at Libreville in 1862 ; mail from there was routed through the British post office on Fernando Po ( now Bioko ).

When the Spanish ousted Protestant missionaries from their base at Fernando Po ( modern Bioko ) in 1858, the Isubu king, William I of Bimbia, sold part of Wovea territory to British missionary Alfred Saker.

The island was passed to Spain in 1778 by the First Treaty of San Ildefonso, together with Fernando Pó ( now Bioko ) and the Guinea coast as part of an exchange in which Portugal received territory in Brazil.

As recently as the 1970s the cult was present on Bioko ( Fernando Poo ) in Equatorial Guinea.

The Portuguese explorer, Fernão do Pó, seeking a route to India, is credited with having discovered the island of Bioko in 1471.

* Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea, was named " Formosa " by Fernão do Pó.

The original Fernandinos of the region who existed on the islands of Bioko and Sao Tome and Principe, both discovered by explorer Fernão do Pó, stemmed from indigenous, Spanish and / or Portuguese ancestry.

The Portuguese explorer, Fernão do Pó, seeking a route to India, is credited with having discovered the island of Bioko in 1472.

It is said the Igbo of Nigeria ( mostly Aro ) slave traders arrived and founded very few tiny settlements in Bioko and Rio Muni which expanded the Aro Confederacy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

( The Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island ( MAIB ) which advocates independence for the island under Bubi control, is one of the offshoots of the era immediately preceding independence ).

Its main airport is Malabo International Airport in Punta Europa, Bioko Island.

The U. S. patrol boat Isla de Bioko is no longer operational.

The Congo Grey parrot is found on the islands of Príncipe and Bioko and is distributed from southeastern Ivory Coast to western Kenya, northwest Tanzania, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ), and northern Angola.

Bioko used to be the end of a peninsula attached to the mainland in what is now Cameroon, but it was cut off when sea levels rose 10, 000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

* The English-lexicon Creole Pichi is spoken on Bioko

The Annobonese language is spoken by 9, 000 people on the islands of Ano Bom and Bioko, in Equatorial Guinea.

Pichinglis is spoken in the Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

This is especially true for the Fang while on the capital island of Bioko has largely been influenced by Spanish customs and traditions during the colonial period.

The balélé dance is performed along the coast throughout the year and on Bioko around Christmas.

Despite a veneer of Spanish culture and of Roman Catholic religion that is thicker in Bioko than on the mainland, Equatorial Guineans live largely according to ancient customs, which have undergone a revival since independence.

The subspecies D. a. modestus ( Príncipe ) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus ( Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola ) is usually split as a separate species, the Velvet-mantled Drongo D. modestus, ( Hartlaub, 1849 ).

In essence, the tribe is a result of an amalgamation of small tribal groups who immigrated to Bioko Island in several waves, and each group established its own enclave upon the island.

The Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island () is a proscribed political organization in Equatorial Guinea.

It is supported by the Bubi ethnic group, which dominates Bioko island ( home of the national capital ).

The MAIB has support from traditional Bubi leaders and some of the general population of Bioko, but the party is forced by law to operate secretly.

Equatorial Guinea was carved out of three former Spanish colonies: Rio Muni, a strip of land between Cameroon and Gabon, Bioko, an island near Cameroon, and Annobón, an island in the Atlantic Ocean far from the mainland.

) visitors to the island of Bioko.

For several centuries, Europeans attempted to penetrate the island of Bioko.

The island is presently named Bioko, part of Equatorial Guinea.

Wovea oral history names a man from the island of Bioko as their forebear.

It occupies the northern part of the island of Bioko, the remainder of which comprises Bioko Sur Province.

It occupies the southern part of the island of Bioko, the remnant of which comprises Bioko Norte Province.