North Island (African Banks)
| North Island | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago |
Amiranten ( African Banks ) |
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| Geographical location | 4 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 53 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 275 m | |
| width | 60 m | |
| surface | 30 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 3 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
North Island is a small island in the north of the African Banks , a sandbank area that is geographically part of the Amiranten archipelago and politically part of the Republic of Seychelles . North Island is about 235 km southwest of Mahé , the main island of the Seychelles.
The 275 m long and 45 to 90 m wide island rises only a few meters above sea level, is uninhabited and has an area of barely 0.3 km². At the northern end of the no longer functioning is Lighthouse North Iceland Lighthouse .
North Island is frequently visited by poachers who plunder the nest of breeding birds. Tourists occasionally come by chartered yachts . The island has almost no tree cover (there was a coconut palm in 1995, which had become a small group of palm trees in October 2007). Otherwise it is covered with grass and low bushes.