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The Mascarene Islands, the island chain that Mauritius lies in, is a volcanic belt. [4] Le Pouce is the second highest peak in the Moka Range, which was formed ten million years ago from volcano eruptions. [5] The range is a basalt lava dome and is no longer volcanically active. [5]
The youngest olivine flood basalts emplaced between 700,000 and 20,000 years ago. Rodrigues Island is slightly younger than Mauritius. Radiometric dating gives an age of 1.54 million years ago. The volcano on Rodrigues built the island up to an elevation of 450 meters above sea level, with 62 meters of coral debris covering its southwestern ...
Pieter Both, sometimes referred to as Peter Botte Mountain, [1] is the second highest mountain of Mauritius, at 820 metres (2,690 ft) tall. [2] The mountain is slightly shorter than Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire by eight metres. It is named after Pieter Both, the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. It is located in the Moka ...
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The youngest islands to form were Mauritius (7–10 mya), the oldest of the existing islands, created along with the undersea Rodrigues ridge. The islands of Rodrigues and Réunion were created in the last two million years. Réunion is the largest of the islands (2,500 km 2), followed by Mauritius (1,900 km 2) and Rodrigues (110 km 2).
Mauritius has a population of about 1.2 million people and is a popular tourist destination. Police were still mobilized across Mauritius, the government's National Emergency Operations Command ...
Mauritius is known as one of Africa's most stable democracies, but this election was tainted by a phone-tapping scandal, with leaked recordings of public figures posted online.
water: 10 km 2 note: includes Agalega Islands, Cargados Carajos Shoals (St. Brandon), and Rodrigues. Coastline: 177 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nmi (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) continental shelf: 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) or to the edge of the continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) Elevation extremes: