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Islets of Mauritius: Port Louis: 1871: 1252980 Ile aux Benitiers: Ile aux Benitiers: 0.7: 10 Ile Aux Cerfs: Le Touessrok Resort: 1.2: 0 Ile des Deux Cocos: Deux Cocos Resort: 0.04: 2 Mauritius Island: Port Louis: Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill, Quatre Bornes, Vacoas-Phoenix, Curepipe: 1860: 1252964 More Mauritius Islands: Ile aux Aigrettes
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 ...
2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision A United States Air Force F-16 collides with a privately-owned Cessna to the north of Charleston, South Carolina. The pilot of the jet ejects safely, but the Cessna breaks up mid-air, killing the two unidentified occupants.
Liza Maza, a human rights activist and former Filipino congresswoman, and the Center for Women's Resources criticized the United States and the Philippines governments for preventing Maza's boarding of a July 9, 2015, Korean Air flight destined for Washington, D.C. Maza, who has a U.S. visa valid until 2018, was scheduled to speak before a left ...
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 ...
Lion Mountain (Montagne du Lion) is a mountain near Vieux Grand Port, Mauritius. It is so called because it resembles a sleeping lion. [ 1 ] It has an elevation of approximately 440 metres (1,440 ft).
Chamarel is a village located in the western hills on the west coast of Mauritius at an elevation of about 850 feet (260 m) between Savanne and the Black river districts where the cascades are formed on the River du Capano flowing through an "amphitheater of abrupt rocks". It is a wooded plateau.
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).