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Geography: The Seychelles is a tropical East African republic
and island nation in the Indian Ocean, northwest of
Madagascar.
The Republic of Seychelles comprises a group of about 115
islands located across 1.3 million square kilometres of the western
Indian Ocean, centred some 1,600 km east of mainland Africa, and
lying between 4 and 11 degrees south of the equator. Its land area
covers 455 km2, while the coastline is around 490 km in length. A
total of 41 islands are granitic with rugged topography. They
include the so-called 'inner islands', of which Mahé (155
km2), Praslin (38 km2) and La Digue (10 km2) are the most
economically developed. All the granitic islands are situated
within a distance of 50 km from Mahé and Seychelles' capital
city, Victoria. The rest of the islands are coralline, rising only
a few metres above sea level, and scattered throughout the western
Indian Ocean. More than 95% of the estimated 85,000 inhabitants
live on the three inner islands of Mahé (86%), Praslin (8%)
and La Digue (2%). The population density on these three islands is
468 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Geografihistoriske primærkilder og fremstillinger /
Geography Historical primary sources and
presentations /
Géographie des sources historiques primaires:
Unpublished Documents on the History of the Seychelles
Islands Anterior to 1810. / :
Albert-Auguste Fauvel. Printed at the Government Printing Office,
Mahé, Seychelles, 1909.
- http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2396/
This compilation of documents is an important source for the study
of the early history of the Seychelles, an archipelago located in
the western Indian Ocean north of Madagascar. Previously
uninhabited, the islands were explored by the Portuguese navigator
Vasco da Gama in the early 1500s. In the 1740s, the French sent
expeditions from the Isle de France (present-day Mauritius) to the
Seychelles, and on November 1, 1756, Captain Corneille Nicolas
Morphey, commander of the French East India Company frigate Le
Cerf, took possession of the islands in the name of the King of
France and the French East India Company. Settlement began in the
1770s with the establishment of plantations to produce, with
imported slave labor, crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice. The
British seized the islands in 1794 and gained permanent control of
them in 1814 at the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars. This book,
published in 1909 in Mahé (the capital of the then- British
crown colony of the Seychelles), includes the texts of the most
important French documents relating to the history of the islands
from 1742 to 1810. The documents were gathered from major libraries
and archives in Paris, the Archives of Mauritius, and the City
Library of Caen. Also included is a listing of early maps of the
Seychelles. The Republic of Seychelles became an independent nation
in 1976.
A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in
the Years 1789 and 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles
Islands and Trincomale. / : Louis de Grandpré.
- London : G. and J. Robinson, 1803.
- http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2397/
'Louis de Grandpré was a French army officer who made an
extensive tour of the Indian Ocean region in 1789-90. This account
of his voyage is an English translation of the original French
version, which was published in Paris in 1801 under the title
Voyage dans l’Inde et au Bengale fait dans les années
1789 et 1790, contenant la description des îles
Séchelles et de Trinquemaly. Grandpré began his
voyage in the French-controlled Île de France (Isle of
France), as Mauritius was called, passed by the Maldives, and
visited the Seychelles, India, Cochin China (Vietnam), Yemen, and
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where he toured the fortress of Trincomale on
the eastern coast of the island. Grandpré was very much
concerned with the relative influence of the different European
powers in the places he visited, especially India. His work
includes a detailed analysis of the position of the French at
Pondicherry (Puducherry), the main center of French influence in
India.'
Eastern Africa Atlas of Coastal Resources Digital coastal and
marine resources atlas for Seychelles Developed in the framework of
The Eastern African Coastal and Marine Environment resources
database and atlas project (EAF/14) United Nations Environment
Programme, 2002.
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http://gridnairobi.unep.org/chm/EAFDocuments/Seychelles/Seychelles_atlas.pdf
