Île au Cerf
| Île au Cerf | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Seychelles | |
| Geographical location | 4 ° 37 '58 " S , 55 ° 30' 2" E | |
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| length | 1.7 km | |
| width | 1.1 km | |
| surface | 1.27 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 108 m | |
| Residents | 100 79 inhabitants / km² |
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The Île au Cerf (Engl. Cerf Island , dt. "Deer Island") is a 1.27 square kilometer island of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean . After Sainte Anne, it is the second largest island in the archipelago belonging to the Sainte Anne Marine National Park and belongs to the Mont Fleuri district .
The privately owned Île au Cerf is located 4 kilometers off the northeast coast of the main island of Mahé with the capital Victoria and 2 kilometers south of the island of Sainte Anne, is overgrown with tropical rainforest and has several beaches. The highest point is 108 m above sea level. In the west of the island there are four hotel complexes and the Kapok Tree restaurant. In addition, around 20 locals live on the island. A good 60 meters southeast of Ìle aux Cerf is the 2.1 hectare island Île Cachée . It can be reached on foot when the water level is low.
At no time did deer live on the island, rather the island is named after the frigate Cerf , with which Captain Corneille Morphy set sail from Mauritius for Mahé on July 16, 1756 . The writer Wilbur A. Smith had a vacation home on the island for 25 years.
The island is not to be confused with the uninhabited island of the same name, Cerf Island / Île au Cerf in the extreme south of the Providence Atoll at 9 ° 31 ′ 19 ″ S , 50 ° 59 ′ 2 ″ E, as well as the uninhabited island of Île, which belongs to Mauritius aux Cerfs .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ uhambo.de: Seychelles at a Glance , accessed on October 28, 2009
- ↑ seychellen-guide.de: Islands of the Seychelles , accessed on October 28, 2009
- ↑ Horst Geckeler, Ulrich Hoinkes: Panorama of the lexical semantics: thematic commemorative publication on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Horst Geckeler . Gunter Narr Verlag, 1995, p. 806 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Telegraph.co.uk: Wilbur's happy ending. Retrieved October 31, 2016 .