* Aldabra Group ( Aldabra Atoll, Assumption Island, and the Cosmoledo Group, consisting of Cosmoledo Atoll and Astove Island )

Wilkenair of Kenya had, however, already started a ferry service between Mombasa and Mahé via Diego Suarez in Madagascar and Astove Island ( Seychelles ) using a twin engine Piper Navajo the previous year.

There are abandoned settlements on Astove Island and on Menai Island of Cosmoledo.

The term Cosmoledo Group includes Cosmoledo Atoll and Astove Island.

# Astove Island ( a raised atoll with just one island )

Astove Island is part of the Aldabra Group of the Seychelles.

Astove Island measures nearly north to south and about at most east to west.

Astove Island has a very thin soil layer overlying its rocky core, which is pockmarked with caverns.

Astove Island is home to four landbirds:

In 1968, Astove Island was occupied by British adventurer and businessman Mark Veevers-Carter and his American wife, Wendy ( Day ) Veevers-Carter, who was the daughter of American author Clarence Day ( Life With Father ).

* astovei: from Astove ( island ).

A passing ship reported that there was “ a treasure trove of slaves ” to be had for the taking from Astove, but repeated efforts to capture them failed when almost all the ships foundered, as had the La Dom Royal.

Astove was heavily mined for guano and phosphates, and hunted for its sea turtles, but for the most part remained unvisited due to its remoteness and distance from normal shipping lanes.

The atoll is located at and belongs to the Aldabra Group, one of the island groups of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, which includes the island of Assumption and the atolls of Astove and Cosmoledo.

This gecko is found on the Seychelles islands of Astove, Mahé, Praslin, Curieuse, La Digue and Frégate.

It was suggested that Astove is not a true raised atoll, but rather a reef flat, with the lagoon being washed out later.

Astove Island's fringing reef is just about 180 m ( 300 ft ) wide.

Much of the region in which Astove lies was explored by Arab seamen and merchants between 1000 and 1500 A. D., but there is no record of human settlement on the island before 1760.

In that year, the Portuguese frigate La Dom Royal, laden with plunder and slaves, went aground at Astove.

All aboard made it to the island, but the captain and crew soon abandoned Astove and struck out for Mozambique in a long boat.

The remaining slaves on Astove were eventually picked up and evacuated to Mahe, leaving one sole survivor “ named Paul ” on the island.

In 1799, a passing ship stopped at Astove and a search was made for this lone slave, but no trace of him could be found.

Human presence at Astove remained inconsistent throughout the 19th century and centered largely upon harvesting operations that were under way at the time.

The couple had founded, operated and sold a successful copra plantation on the Seychelles island of Remire, and sought to do the same on the much larger island of Astove.

“ When we landed on Astove, we found palm trees, a roofless wooden house and a graveyard ,” wrote Wendy Veevers-Carter.

He took with him the couple ’ s broken short-wave radio and one of their three children, leaving his wife and their two sons on the plantation at Astove.

On March 11, the 42-year-old Veevers-Carter died under anesthesia in the dentist ’ s chair, but because there was no radio on Astove, word could not be quickly delivered to his wife.

Wendy Veevers-Carter tried to manage Astove alone until November 1970, but found the task impossible.

: US: slightly larger than Rhode Island

These figures are slightly inflated due to the inclusion of areas within the Regional Districts which are not normally considered to be part of the Lower Mainland, notably the lower Fraser Canyon and the heads of Harrison and Pitt Lakes, which are within the FVRD, and Lions Bay and Bowen Island, which are within the GVRD

The nearest land is usually said to be Kaffeklubben Island, off the northern coast of Greenland about away, though some perhaps non-permanent gravel banks lie slightly closer.

Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther.

slightly smaller than Rhode Island

Population density in the southern-most Bahamas remained lower, probably due to the drier climate there ( less than 800 mm of rain a year on Great Inagua Island and the Turks and Caicos Islands and only slightly higher on Acklins and Crooked Islands and Mayaguana ).

The North Island ( Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui ) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

At just over, San Bernardino County is slightly larger than the states of New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

Before the Tertiary, when the sea level was much lower than at present, the Swan River curved around to the north of Rottnest Island, and disgorged itself into the Indian Ocean slightly to the north and west of Rottnest.

In the early 17th century, the Dutch settled from Manhattan Island to slightly north of Albany, New York along the Hudson River.

Ocracoke Island Airport ( FAA Identifier W95 ) is located slightly south-east of the village, allowing small aircraft to land.

Population density in the southern-most Bahamas remained lower, probably due to the drier climate there ( less than 800 mm of rain a year on Great Inagua Island and the Turks and Caicos Islands and only slightly higher on Acklins and Crooked Islands and Mayaguana ).

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These parks cover slightly more than half of the area of Lantau Island.

For years, Jardine Matheson has fired a cannon shot at noon every day in Causeway Bay, by Victoria Harbour, slightly eastward of the former Kellett Island.

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Though it has a far smaller population, it is slightly larger than the North Island.

Nanaimo is probably the northernmost location of a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ) in the world, and is slightly shielded from the Aleutian Low ’ s influence by the mountains of central Vancouver Island, so that summers are unusually dry for its latitude and location — though summer drying as a trend is found in the immediate lee of the coastal ranges as far north as Skagway, Alaska.

The town is situated slightly to the north of the centre of the Island, at the head of the navigable section of the River Medina, which flows northward to the Solent, and on which the town has a quay.

The Curse of Monkey Island featured slightly refined gameplay based on the pie menu interface used in Full Throttle.

The GrimE technology was slightly modified for the game, although Escape from Monkey Island was in most respects similar to Grim Fandango in both graphics and gameplay.

Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros.

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