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16 unusual facts about seychelles


Acanthennea erinacea

Acanthennea erinacea is endemic to Silhouette Island and Mahé Island, the Seychelles.

Agriculture in Seychelles

Tea grown on the misty slopes of Mahé is a more recent plantation crop, serving mainly the local market.

Antoine Abel

Antoine Abel was a poet from Seychelles born on November 27, 1934, and died on October 19, 2004 in Mahé, Seychelles.

Cyclone Bejisa

A weather station on Mahé observed 164 mm (6.46 in) of rain over a 24-hour period beginning on December 27.

Gardiner's Seychelles frog

It is restricted to the high- and mid-altitude areas of Mahé and Silhouette Islands of the Seychelles group.

Joseph Belmont

Belmont, who was born in Grand Anse on the island of Mahé, was Minister for Labour and Social Security from 1982 to 1985.

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

The line's routes, beyond the home islands, included services to the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Saigon; the Australian ports of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; African ports such as Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Zanzibar, Mombasa, and the Indian Ocean ports of Réunion and Mauritius and Mahé.

Lazare Picault

In 1744 he returned to the Seychelles and renamed the largest island Mahé after Mahé de La Bourdonnais, the governor of Réunion and Mauritius, who was in charge of the mission.

Mahé day gecko

This species is found on the western granite islands of the Seychelles including the island Mahé.

Rolph Payet

Rolph Payet FRGS is an international policy expert, researcher and speaker on environment, climate and island issues, and was the first President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles.

He was appointed President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles in October 2009.

Roscheria

They naturally occur on the Mahé and Silhouette Islands of Seychelles where they grow in mountainous rainforest and are threatened by habitat loss.

Schefflera procumbens

It is endemic to Seychelles, now confined to six small areas on Silhouette Island at altitudes between 400 and 700 meters, having become extinct on Mahé.

Seychellois presidential election, 2011

The first day of the elections is 19 May 2011 commencing on the Outer Islands, then 20 May 2011 on the Inner Islands and 21 May the main island of Mahé.

Telecommunications in Seychelles

The BBC World Service has a station based in Grand' Anse in southern Mahé which is also listened to in parts of East Africa.

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.


2011 Indian Ocean Island Games

The 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games are the 8th edition of the competition, due to be held in Victoria, Seychelles.

Air Seychelles

Air Seychelles ended its contract in the third quarter of 2011 with the UK Ministry of Defence to provide service from RAF Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire, England, to RAF Ascension Island and then on to RAF Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic.

Aldabra

Tropicbird orchid Angraecum Seychellarum is the national flower of Seychelles found in the dry craggy limestone champignon of Aldebra.

Allen Larue

One of his first games for the Seychelles came in the 2004 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Zimbabwe.

Ancylosis

It was described by Zeller, in 1839, and is known from South Africa, Uzbekistan, Spain, Turkmenistan, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Tinos, Australia, Seychelles, Afghanistan, the United States, Iraq, Namibia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Mauritius, Mozambique, Sarepta, Argentina, Sri Lanka, and Aden.

Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper

The trip lasted 9 months during which time they visited the Canary Islands, Cameroon, Cape Town, (where he joined Rudolf Marloth on collecting trips in the southern Cape), Kerguelen, New Amsterdam and Cocos Islands, Sumatra, the Maldives, Ceylon, the Seychelles and the Red Sea.

Arab Higher Committee

On 23 November 1938, the Colonial Secretary, Malcolm MacDonald, repeated his refusal to allow Amin al-Husayni to be a delegate, but was willing to allow the five Palestinian leaders held in the Seychelles to take part in the conference.

Bank of Ceylon

Addition to the local presence, the bank maintains an Off-shore Banking Unit in the head office in Colombo, and four branches in London, Malé, Chennai, and seychelles.

Blainville's beaked whale

The second specimen, a complete skull sent from the Seychelles by a M. Leduc in 1839, was named Ziphius seychellensis by the English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1846; the French scientist Paul Gervais later placed this specimen in the genus Dioplodon ("two-toothed").

Cousin Island

There are several species of endemic Seychelles lizards on the island, the skinks Mabuya wrightii, M. seychellensis and Pamelascincus gardineri and the geckos Phelsuma astriata and Ailuronyx sechellensis, as well as a freshwater turtle Pelusios subniger and 12 individuals of the Aldabra Giant Tortoise.

D. nobilis

Deckenia nobilis, the millionaire's salad, a flowering plant species endemic to the Seychelles

Dorence Atwater

Mr. "Throck" Throckmorton and a young man using the name Harry Blanchard—one of the original Christy’s Minstrels—became good friends for Dorence on the trip back to the Seychelles.

Economy of Seychelles

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency - one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

In 1995, Seychelles saw the privatization of the Seychelles Tuna Canning Factory, 60% of which was purchased by the American food company Heinz.

Epsom Downs Racecourse

On 4 June 2011, in their first public outing since returning from their Seychelles honeymoon, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (along with The Queen, William's brother, Prince Harry, and Catherine's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton) attended the 2011 Epsom Derby at the track.

FSSF

FSSF, the ICAO Airport Code for Frégate Island Airport, an airfield serving Frégate Island in the Seychelles.

Jean-Nicolas Céré

Botanist Labillardière noted that the Coco de Mer Palm, Lodicea maldivica from the island of Praslin in the Seychelles (botanically notable for its 'double' coconut, the largest seed in he world) was cultivated at the Pamplemousses gardens where it had been planted in 1769.

John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton

However, negotiations with Archbishop Makarios III were unsuccessful and, eventually, Harding exiled Makarios to the British Colony of Seychelles.

Krzysztof Baranowski

The course of the travel led among others through the Canary Islands, Caribbean, Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, Seychelles, Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

Longhead catshark

Records of the longhead catshark are patchy and widely spread in the Indo-Pacific region: it is known from the East China Sea, southern Japan, the Seychelles, the Philippines, Mozambique, New Caledonia, and northern Australia off Townsville, Ashmore Reef, and North West Cape.

Malcolm Penny

Malcolm Penny is a British zoologist who is known for his ornithological field work on Aldabra and the Seychelles.

Marianne White-eye

It is known with certainty only from the small granitic islet of Marianne Island (0,962 sqm) in the Seychelles about 6 km east of La Digue.

Mayotte White-eye

The Marianne White-eye formerly considered as subspecies of Mayotte White-eye occurred on Marianne and perhaps other islands in the Seychelles but is now extinct.

Missile Test Project

MTP instrumented and operated the following tracking stations: CCAFS (designated AFE71), Grand Bahama Island (AFE73), Eleuthera Island (AFE74), San Salvador Island (AFE75), Mayaguana Island (AFE76), Grand Turk Island (AFE77), Antigua Island (AFE86), Chaguaramus, Trinidad (AFE87), Ascension Island (AFE83) and Mahé in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean (AFE89).

Moraingy

It has since become popularized throughout Madagascar, but particularly in coastal regions, and has spread to neighboring Indian Ocean islands including Reunion, Mayotte, Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius.

Pacific Swift

Birds have been recorded from Brunei, the Maldives, New Zealand and Macquarie Island, and there have been multiple occurrences in the Seychelles.

Pheidole decepticon

It occurs on the Comoros (Anjouan Island), Mayotte, Juan de Nova Island, and on the Cosmoledo Atoll of the Seychelles, which is located about 415 km northeast of Mayotte.

Russia–Seychelles relations

In February 2009, Alexander Vladimirov, Russia's Ambassador to Seychelles paid a final visit to President James Michel and Vice-President Joseph Belmont at the State House.

S. robustum

Sason robustum, a trapdoor spider species only found in southern India, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles

Saad Zaghloul

At the time of Zaghloul's arrival in the Seychelles, a number of other prominent anti-imperialist leaders were also exiled there, including Mohamoud Ali Shire, the 20th Sultan of the Somali Warsangali Sultanate, with whom Zaghloul would soon develop a rapport.

Samoidae

Samoidae from Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia, Mexico, the West Indies and Venezuela are all remarkably similar, while the species from Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles and Indonesia do at least in part not belong to this family.

Samsong

He toured the island of Seychelles, and was privileged to have dinner with the Vice President, Joseph Belmont.

Seychelles Fody

The Seychelles Fody (Foudia sechellarum) is a small yellowish songbird that lives in the Seychelles islands of Aride Island, Cousin Island, Cousine Island, Fregate Island, D'Arros Island and as of 2004 Denis Island.

Seychelles Scout Association

In July 2006, Rubina Marivonne Haroon, who was born in the Seychelles, was appointed Regional Director for the World Scout Bureau Africa Regional Office.

Telecommunications in Seychelles

In June 2008 a new Internet cafe opened on Praslin, set up in the district administration office at Baie Ste Anne, under the sponsorship of the Jj Spirit Foundation, the Lions Club of Paradise Seychelles and Cable & Wireless.

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.

Whaling in Seychelles

In 1979 Seychelles, represented at the International Whaling Commission by author Lyall Watson, took a surprising step in championing the creation of Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Zeudi Araya

On a journey to Italy in 1972, she recorded a commercial for coffee, and was discovered by the director Luigi Scattini, who cast her with Beba Lončar in La ragazza dalla pelle di luna shot in the Seychelles.