Île aux Tonneliers
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 20 ° 9 ′ S , 57 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 7 m | |
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The Île aux Tonneliers ( English Tonneliers Island , translated Island of the Faßbinder , 1804 Böttcherinsel or Böttigerinsel ) is a former island in the Indian Ocean , which was formerly on the northwest coast of Mauritius , opposite the old port of Port Louis .
During the expansion of the modern port, the island was connected to the mainland by filling and flushing. In their place is now the container port and the oil jetty.
history
As administrator of the port of Port-Louis (1772–1781), Bernard Boudin de Tromelin had a pier built more than eight hundred steps to the island. A fortification was built on the Île aux Tonneliers that protected the harbor with cannons. Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent visited the island as a participant in the Baudin expedition . He describes it as a long and low island on which he did not find the slightest green in summer . <594>
Before the coastal battery was built, a meteorite impact occurred on the island , which Bory describes as a ball of fire , according to contemporary reports . After several days of searching, he was able to find three fragments of the air stone that had been mortared into the fortification walls. <594ff>
literature
- Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent : Voyage dans les quatre principales îles des mers d'Afrique . Paris 1804. Volume?
- Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent: A ball of fire that fell on Böttiger Island (Ile-aux-Tonneliers) . In: Travel to the Mascarene or French African Islands . (Excerpts translated). Library of the latest and most important travelogues , ed. by Matthias Christian Sprengel and Theophil Friedrich Ehrmann . Volume 25. Weimar 1805. pp. 594-596