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'''Isle of Bombay''' was one of the [[Seven Islands of Bombay]], an [[archipelago]] of islands that were, in the eighteenth century, connected to form the area of the modern city of [[Mumbai]] (formerly ''[[Bombay]]'') in [[India]]. The island was the main harbour and the Base of the British from where the city expanded.<ref name ="TIFR">{{cite web|url=http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/physical/geo/7islands.html |title=The Seven Islands |publisher=Mumbai Pages |accessdate=10 September 2014}}</ref><br />
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The island stretched from Malabar Hill on the west to Dongri in the East where it formed a [[natural harbour]]. To its north at the Malabar hill end lay the Island of Worli, while the Island of Mazgaon lay across a creek from the Dongri end. The island of Colaba and the [[Old Woman's Island]] lay to the south of Bombay isle.<ref name="Tindall1992">{{cite book|author=Gillian Tindall|title=City of Gold: The Biography of Bombay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKwmBWs-jGMC&pg=PA27|year=1992|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-009500-5|pages=26–}}</ref><br />
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In the eighteenth century, the isle was merged with its neighbouring landmasses of Worli (in 1784 by the building of the [[Hornby Vellard]]) and with Colaba Island via the construction of the [[Colaba Causeway]] in 1838.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/history/reclamation.html |title=History of Land reclamation in Mumbai |publisher=Mumbai Pages |accessdate=10 September 2014}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661)]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East by Niebuhr, Carsten, Volume II. Section XXX<br />
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