Silhouette (seychelles)
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Seychelles | |
| Geographical location | 4 ° 29 '11 " S , 55 ° 13' 48" E | |
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| length | 5.7 km | |
| width | 4.3 km | |
| surface | 19.95 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Mont Plaisir / Dauban 752 m |
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| Residents | 150 7.5 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | La Passe | |
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Silhouette is an island in the Seychelles in the archipelago around Mahé .
Silhouette is the third largest island of the inner Seychelles with 20 km² and is located northwest of Mahé. About five kilometers north of the island is the small island of North Island . Contrary to what the geographical location suggests, the island belongs administratively to the district of La Digue and Inner Islands and is thus administered from the island of La Digue .
Geologically, Silhouette and North Island differ from the other islands in the inner Seychelles. Both are made of about 63 million years old syenite of volcanic origin, while the granite of Mahé or Praslin is about 650 million years old.
Mont Plaisir , the highest mountain on the island, is 752 meters high, Mont Dauban 740 meters. The 150 inhabitants live in two villages. The main town is La Passe on the northeast coast, at the northern end of which is the five-star Labriz resort with 105 houses. The second village is Grand Barbe on the southwest coast.
Silhouette has no roads and is otherwise relatively poorly developed. In return, nature has been preserved relatively well in its original state. Biologists consider the island to be one of the most important biodiversity areas in the Indian Ocean.
On the island there is a breeding station for the Seychelles giant tortoises Dipsochelys hololissa and Dipsochelys hololissa , which were considered extinct until the early 1990s . There are now around 150 young animals there.
The island owes its name to Étienne de Silhouette , the French finance minister at the time of King Louis XV. was.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael J. Hill (Ed.): Biodiversity Surveys and Conservation Potential of Inner Seychelles Islands ( Memento of September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Atoll Research Bulletin 495, July 2002 (PDF; 9.83 MB; English)
- ↑ 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).