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9 unusual facts about Mauritius


Alex Kipchirchir

In August, he completed a 800 and 1500 metres double at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics in Bambous, Mauritius.

Bambous

Bambous, Mauritius, a village in the district of Rivière Noire, Mauritius

Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius

According to the Constitution of Mauritius there shall be a Prime Minister and a Deputy Prime Minister who shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister.

The actual Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Rashid Beebeejaun was appointed by the President on 7 July 2005 after the 2005 General Election and remained in office after he was re-elected in the 2010 General Election, he is the Minister of Energy and Public Utilities.

Jean-Chrysostôme Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne

On 28 February 1803, he departed for India, arriving at Île de France in August.

Ken Suttle

Kenneth George 'Ken' Suttle (born 25 August 1928 at Brook Green, Hammersmith, London; died 25 March 2005 while on holiday in Mauritius) was an English cricketer.

Mauritius Owl

In the 1830s, the species seems to have been not uncommonly found in the southeastern part of the island, between Souillac and the Montagnes Bambous due east of Curepipe, with the last testimony of observations referring to several encounters in 1837.

Rodriguan

Anything of, from, or related to Rodrigues, a island which is part of Mauritius located 560 km (348 mi) east of Mauritius island.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs

This corresponds to the geographic area under the purview of the Bureau of African Affairs in the Department of State, and includes the countries of Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Comoros.


Africanogyrus rodriguezensis

This species is endemic to Mauritius.

AMPL-class interceptor boat

The vessels have been based at various Indian coast guard station such as Mandapam, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Okha, Chennai, Kochi and Goa, and one boat was leased to Mauritius in 2001.

Anthony van Diemen

In November 1642, headeding east from Mauritius on latitude 44 and missing the south coast of the Australian continent, Tasman sighted land at what is now the west coast of the island of Tasmania, and followed the coastline along the southern shore and around to the east coast.

Ashok Jugnauth

He succeeded to pull off the Political career in Mauritius as he forms part of the Jugnauth Family.

Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy

When Nandy retired in 2000, Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth made an offer to Nandy to come back to Mauritius as NSA.

Blue Penny Museum

The stamps were bought in 1993 for $2,000,000 by a consortium of Mauritian enterprises headed by The Mauritius Commercial Bank and brought back to Mauritius after almost 150 years.

Bojer's skink

It occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius including Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner’s Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe.

British currency in the Middle East

The 1825 order-in-council was limited largely to the remnants of the old Empire in North America and the West Indies, along with New South Wales, Gibraltar, and some spoils of the Napoleonic wars such as the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Mauritius.

Cartosat-2A

The satellite's health is continuously monitored from the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore with the help of ISTRAC network of stations at Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius, Bearslake in Russia, Biak in Indonesia and Svalbard in Norway.

Cecil Margo

the Helderberg air disaster of 1987 which claimed 159 lives when an SAA Boeing 747, the Helderberg, crashed into the sea north-east of Mauritius.

Charles William Andrews

He noticed the connections among widely separated flightless rails of Mauritius, the Chatham Islands and New Zealand and deduced that their flightless character had been independently evolved on the spot.

Charlotte Morel

As usual, Morel ended the season with the Indian Ocean Triathlon in Mauritius (23 November 2013), winning the gold medal together with her fiancé Frédéric Belaubre.

Clarisse

Eddy Clarisse (born 1972), retired badminton player from Mauritius

Claude de Baissac

Claude Denis Boucherville de Baissac, DSO and bar, CdeG, known as Claude de Baissac or by his codename David (born 28 February 1907, Curepipe, Mauritius - died 22 December 1974) was a Mauritian of French descent who became an agent in the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Cliff L'Aimable

Cliff L'Aimable (born 1961:Mauritius ) is a Chartered Surveyor specialising in UK Building Regulations was associated to a public building control body as an early authorising building regulation approval signatory to landmark building developments within the regeneration programme being administered by the London Borough of Southwark, such as the Shard London Bridge ( aka. London Bridge Tower ).

Dayendranath Burrenchobay

Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay KBE, CMG, CVO, GCSK, (Born as सर डयेन्द्रनथ बुर्रेन्चोबय 24 March 1919 – 29 March 1999) was born in Plaine Magnien, Mauritius and served as Governor-General of Mauritius.

Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon

In a letter from Lord Minto Governor General of India upon that occasion, he acknowledges the public service I rendered, not only as relating to the fall of the Mauritius, but adds that it was to the co-operation I afforded he was indebted for the means of moving against Java.

East Caribbean dollar

In 1822, the British government coined 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 fractional 'Anchor dollars' for use in Mauritius and the British West Indies (but not Jamaica).

Elinor Mordaunt

In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline (wife of George Le Hunte) and in 1898 married a planter there named Wiehe.

Francis Thomé

Francis Thomé (October 18, 1850, Port Louis, Mauritius - November 16, 1909, Paris), was a French pianist and composer.

Frederick Leith-Ross

Leith-Ross was born in Mauritius, but grew up with his grandfather at the family estate, Arnage Castle in Scotland.

Furcifer

Additionally, F. pardalis has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius, while F. oustaleti has been introduced to near Nairobi in Kenya.

Gurty Calambé

On August 9, 2011, Calambé finally scored his first official goal for Mauritius in their 2 – 0 win in the group stage of the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games football tournament over Comoros to help secure Club M's place in the knockout stage.

Guy Lionnet

In 1984, Mauritian botanist Deva Duttun Tirvengadum, a former director of the Mauritius Institute, renamed the endemic plant mangliye gran bwa as Glionnetia sericea, in honour of Guy Lionnet.

Henri Le Sidaner

Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – July 1939) was an intimist painter born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius.

Hibiscus fragilis

The Mandrinette (Hibiscus fragilis) is an extremely rare endemic shrub only known from steep slopes of the mountains Corps de Garde and Le Morne Brabant on Mauritius and from two further plants on Rodrigues.

Inverted Jenny

The play Mauritius, written by Pulitzer Prize for Drama-nominee Theresa Rebeck, features the Inverted Jenny alongside the one- and two-penny Mauritius "Post Office" stamps.

Malartic

Comte de Malartic, a French colonial governor and general in Canada and Mauritius.

Mauritian Wildlife Foundation

The conservation work in Mauritius began as a species orientated program concentrating on a few critically endangered species, including the Mauritius Kestrel and the Pink Pigeon.

Mauritius cricket team

In April 2011, Tommy Hammond, of Tommy Hammond Sports, took South African first-class side Kwazulu-Natal Inland Under-15 side to Mauritius in what promised to be a most important and promising tour and proved to a ground-breaking tour in Mauritian cricket.

Mauritius route

Mauritius is also compliant with norms prescribed by International Organization of Securities Commissions, Iowa Interstate Railroad, Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and the Basel Committee and has enacted necessary legislation.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Miss Mauritius

Diya Beeltah is the first Miss Mauritius to participate at the Miss Tourism World Beauty contest.

National Library of Mauritius

To ensure that access is given to the most comprehensive collection of Mauritiana materials, the National Library has to acquire all print and non-print materials published and printed abroad, whose subject matter is related to Mauritius.

Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritius

The twentieth century issues of Mauritius, like those in other British colonies, generally depicted the current monarch, Edward VII, George V and George VI, and Elizabeth II, as well as Mauritius' coat of arms.

Red-tailed Tropicbird

The Red-tailed Tropicbird nests on oceanic islands in large colonies from the Hawaiian Islands to Easter Island and across to Mauritius and the Reunion Island.

René Lemarant de Kerdaniel

In 1809, he took command of the Astrée and sailed to Île de France to reinforce the frigate squadron under Hamelin, where he witnesses the last stages of the Battle of Grand Port and helped sealing the fate of the last remaining British frigate.

Right of asylum

The first list, enacted in July 2005, included as "safe countries" Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius Island, India, Senegal, Mongolia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia.

Sino-Mauritian

Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.

Souillac, Mauritius

Inhabitants of Souillac are called Souillacois/es (which distinguishes the Souillac-Mauritius inhabitants from the Souillac-France inhabitants called "Souillagais/es").

Stanley Alexander de Smith

His work for Mauritius is commemorated by a memorial in the Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens; his ashes were scattered in that country.

Stanley Portal Hyatt

Stanley and his brothers had started from Central Africa in a penniless condition, but by lecturing and journalism in Durban, they got to Mauritius, from which they wore exported as distressed British subjects.

The Slave Route Project

The societies of the Indian Ocean, including Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, came into being at different times through ancient slave trades and the migrations of populations from Africa, Asia and Europe.

W. tinctoria

Weinmannia tinctoria, a plant species found in Mauritius and Réunion

White suckerfish

The distribution of this species is worldwide in warm open seas: it is found in the western Indian Ocean including Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Chile (but is rare north of Baja California), and in the western and eastern central Atlantic Ocean from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil and St. Paul's Rocks.


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