Seychellen
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- Seychelles – from uninhabited islands to an independent island republic · Outer Islands ·
For most of their history the Seychelles were uninhabited. Arab and later European sailors knew of the islands, and a British East India Company expedition landed there in 1609, but no one settled. In the mid-18th centu…
- Mont Buxton – a hillside district on the island of Mahé · Mont Buxton ·
Mont Buxton is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and its name marks it out as a place of higher ground, where the land begins to climb away from the coastal strip. That position has given t…
- Anse Étoile – the 'star cove' district of the island of Mahé · Anse Etoile ·
Anse Étoile is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and its French name, 'star cove', is one of the many bay names that map the island's coastline. Like the other districts of Mahé, it is laid…
- English River – La Rivière Anglaise, a district of Mahé · La Rivière Anglaise ·
English River, known in French as La Rivière Anglaise, is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé. Its double name is itself a piece of local history, showing how French and English have both left…
- Bel Air – the district of Mahé whose name means 'fine air' · Bel Air ·
Bel Air is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and its French name, meaning something like 'fine air', recalls the higher, breezier ground above the coast where such names were given. It belo…
- Plaisance – a district of Mahé with a name promising pleasant living · Plaisance ·
Plaisance is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and its French name, suggesting pleasantness and ease, belongs to the same layer of island place names left by the early French period. Like i…
- Cascade – the Mahé district whose name recalls falling water · Cascade ·
Cascade is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and its French name speaks of falling water, of the streams that run down from the island's steep green interior towards the sea. That contrast …
- Anse aux Pins – the Mahé district that includes Soleil Island · Anse aux Pins ·
Anse aux Pins is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and Soleil Island belongs to it, so the district takes in both a stretch of mainland coast and its own small island. Its French name recal…
- Baie Lazare – the district named after the explorer Lazare Picault · Baie Lazare ·
Baie Lazare is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, and it carries in its name the memory of the explorer Lazare Picault, after whom the bay was called. That name is a reminder of the early vo…
- Grand'Anse Mahé – the 'great cove' district on the island of Mahé · Grand Anse ·
Grand'Anse Mahé is an administrative district of Seychelles on Mahé, the largest and most populous of the granite islands. Its French name, meaning roughly 'great cove', points to the wide bay that gave the settlement i…
- La Digue and Inner Islands – an island district of the Seychelles · La Digue ·
La Digue and Inner Islands is one of the twenty-six districts of Seychelles and the only one formed by an island together with a scatter of smaller Inner Islands around it. La Digue itself is a granite island whose shor…
- Les Mamelles – a district created in 1998 on reclaimed land · Les Mamelles ·
Les Mamelles is an administrative district of Seychelles in the south of the Greater Victoria suburban area on Mahé, set inland from the neighbouring coastal district of Roche Caiman. It was created in 1998, mostly from…
- Saint Louis – the smallest district of Seychelles · Saint Louis ·
Saint Louis is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé and the smallest in the country, with an area of slightly more than a square kilometre. Despite its size it is densely woven into island life…
- Grand'Anse Praslin – the district of the island bird reserves · Grand Anse ·
Grand'Anse Praslin is an administrative district of Seychelles located mostly on the island of Praslin. Its particular distinction lies offshore: the district also administers Cousin Island, Cousine Island, Booby Island…
- Baie Sainte Anne – the Praslin district that administers Curieuse · Baie Sainte Anne ·
Baie Sainte Anne is an administrative district of Seychelles located mostly on the island of Praslin, the island famed for its coco de mer palms. Beyond its own shore, the district also administers Curieuse Island and s…
- Port Glaud – two marine parks on the northwestern coast · Port Glaud ·
Port Glaud is an administrative district on the northwestern coast of Mahé, covering 25 square kilometres, with a population of 2,174 recorded at the 2002 census and its main settlement in the village of Port Glaud. Wha…
- Bel Ombre – a small fishing harbour on the coast of Mahé · Bel Ombre ·
Bel Ombre is an administrative district of Seychelles on the island of Mahé, stretching along the northwestern coast. Its heart is a small fishing harbour used for artisanal fishing, where crews go out in small boats an…
- Beau Vallon – the best-known beach on the coast of Mahé · Beau Vallon ·
Beau Vallon is a bay on the northwestern coast of Mahé and is possibly the most popular beach on the island, a long stretch of sand that has drawn islanders and visitors alike for generations. Its clear waters and coral…
- Glacis – a northern district of Mahé with Mamelles Island · Glacis ·
Glacis lies in the North Region of the island of Mahé and covers some seven square kilometres of steep coast and hillside. The district also encompasses the uninhabited Mamelles Island, about thirteen kilometres to the …
- Mont Fleuri – a Mahé district with the Sainte Anne marine islands · Mont Fleuri ·
Mont Fleuri is an administrative district of Seychelles whose main part lies on the island of Mahé, close to the capital. What makes it unusual is how far it reaches into the sea: the district also takes in the six isla…
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