Wildlife · Jaffna · Northern
The Island of Wild Ponies
Delft National Park — Island 35 km southwest of Jaffna
DELFT'S WILD PONIESPhoto by AntanO on Wikimedia CommonsOne of the few places in South Asia with free-roaming feral horses, reached by a public ferry from the Jaffna peninsula.
A national park declared in 2015 covering Neduntivu (Delft), a flat coral island in the Palk Strait about 35 km southwest of Jaffna. Herds of feral ponies, descended from horses left by colonial settlers, still roam its open grassland.
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9.4972° N, 79.7000° ECarto · OSM
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