Antsiranana, named Diego-Suarez prior to 1975,'s a city at the northern tip of Madagascar. Antsiranana's the capital of the Diana region and of the Antsiranana autonomous province. Transports Antsiranana has a natural harbour, but the remote location, and, until recently, bad road to the south, has made it rather unimportant for freight traffic. History The place was named for Diego Dias and Fernan Soares ((navigator)), a Portuguese navigator who visited the bay in 1543 . In the 1880s, the… (More on Antsiranana)