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La Digue is the third most populated island [3] of the Seychelles, and fourth largest by land area, [4] lying east of Praslin and west of Felicite Island. In size, it is the fourth-largest granitic island of Seychelles after Mahé, Praslin, and Silhouette Island .
Anse Source d'Argent is a beach situated in the southwest coast of La Digue, Seychelles. It is listed in Lonely Planet as one of the world's best beaches in 2024. [1]
La Digue and remaining Inner Islands. La Digue (Anse Réunion) Geography ... View of Praslin, the second largest island of Seychelles Map of Seychelles.
The Island Mahé White beach on the island La Digue The Seychelles contain at least 75 species of flowering plants, three mammal species, 14 bird species, 30 species of reptiles and amphibians, and several hundred species of snails, insects, spiders and other invertebrates found nowhere else. [ 4 ]
The district was created in 1994 when the government united former La Digue District and Silhouette District. It is managed by a district administrator, which is seated in the main village of La Passe. [3] [4] Since 1994 the district has a "Local Government" which is a unit from the Ministry of Local Government, Youth and Sports. The unit's ...
Seychelles is divided into 26 districts. All but one are located on the Inner Islands; the Outer Islands (Zil Elwannyen Sesel) make up the most recent district.Eight districts make up Greater Victoria, 14 make up the rural part of the main island of Mahé, two make up Praslin, and one makes up La Digue (which includes small surrounding islands and some distant islands like Silhouette, North ...
Father Théophile Pollar arrived on La Digue in October 1853, and laid the foundation of the church which was completed in 1854. In the next six years, he frequently traveled between La Digue and Praslin, for preaching and visiting lepers on Curieuse Island. In 1877, he established La Digue's First Mission school on the north side of the church ...
Granite is the bedrock of Mahe, Praslin, La Digue and Fregate, with the rock dated as 748-755 Ma. Much of the rock is gray granite, while in southwest it is a pink porphyry form of granite. [3] [1] The granites were cut by doleritic dykes, trending WNW-ESE, in the Precambrian and early Tertiary. [1] [2]