Mahe

Mahe is the biggest island of Seychelles, mendacity inside the northeast of the kingdom in the Indian Ocean. The populace of Mahe become seventy seven,000, as of the 2010 census. It carries the capital metropolis of Victoria and comprises 86% of the united states's overall populace. The island turned into named after Bertrand-François Mahe de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France. Mahe's tallest height is Morne Seychellois at 905 m, which lies in the Morne Seychellois National Park. The northern and japanese parts of the island are domestic to tons of the population and the Seychelles International Airport which opened in 1971. The southern and western parts have Baie Ternay Marine National Park, Port Launay Marine National Park, and University of Seychelles.

The Sainte Anne Marine National Park lies offshore, as do Conception Island, Therese Island, Anonyme Island and numerous smaller islands. Mahe changed into first visited by the British in 1609 and not visited by using Europeans again until Lazare Picault's excursion of 1742. The French army frégate Le Cerf arrived at Port Victoria on 1 November 1756. On board changed into Corneille Nicholas Morphey, chief of the French expedition, which claimed the island for the King of France by using laying a Stone of Possession on Mahe, Seychelles’ oldest monument, now on show in the National Museum, Victoria.