5 Kwacha Likoma Island

Likoma Island sits within Lake Malawi entirely surrounded by Mozambican waters — a geographic anomaly dating to the 1890s when the Universities' Mission to Central Africa established a cathedral there, giving Britain enough administrative foothold to claim the island despite drawing the colonial boundary well to the west. Malawi retained it at independence in 1964. The island has no land border with Malawi whatsoever.

This non-circulating issue belongs to a broader run of Malawian novelty coinage from the mid-2000s targeting the collector market rather than domestic commerce.