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The Aldabra, Desroches and Farquhar Islands were returned to the Seychelles and the United States cancelled its 60-year lease of the islands from Britain.
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Aldabra and Farquhar
* 1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
** The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands ( on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to the Seychelles ).
The granite islands are the world ’ s oldest ocean islands, while the outer islands are mainly very young, though the Aldabra group and St Pierre ( Farquhar Group ) are unusual, raised coral islands that have emerged and submerged several times during their long history, the most recent submergence dating from about 125, 000 years ago.
The Aldabra Atoll, along with Des Roches and Farquhar, was part of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 until Seychelles independence in 1976.
Aldabra and Islands
Furthermore, goats brought to Aldabra Islands are destroying much of the vegetation on which giant tortoises feed or seek shade.
* Westernmost point-West Island, Aldabra Islands, Outer Islands district
The most massive terrestrial chelonians are the giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands ( Chelonoidis nigra ) and Aldabra Atoll ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ), at up to.
Aldabra is a raised coral atoll more than from Mahé, the principal island of the Seychelles and is closer to the coast of Africa and is northwest of Madagascar and a similar distance northeast from the Comoro Islands.
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.
Aldabra and Assumption Island Additionally, there are some forty smaller islands and rocks, all inside the lagoon, except a few very small islets at the West Channels between South and Polymnie Islands, the largest of those being Îlot Magnan.
* Aldabra at the Seychelles Islands Foundation
These are the Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis which occurs on the coastline of West Africa ( Egretta gularis gularis ) and from the Red Sea to India ( Egretta gularis schistacea ), and the Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha, found in East Africa, Madagascar, the Comoros and the Aldabra Islands.
* Seychelles Islands Foundation, manages and protects the World Heritage Sites of Aldabra and Vallee de Mai
The Aldabra Group are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1000 kilometres from the capital, Victoria, on Mahé Island.
In 2009, the government of the Seychelles Islands announced its gift of a pair of Aldabra giant tortoises to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in appreciation of China's assisting the small insular nation with the expenses of participating in the Expo.
Aldabra and returned
Réunion was returned to France, and Mauritius gained possession of Aldabra as well as the rest of the Seychelles.
Aldabra and Seychelles
Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll, is in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Seychelles.
In 1810 with Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles and other islands, Aldabra passed into the possession of Great Britain.
Aldabra was designated a World Heritage Site on November 19, 1982, and is administered from Mahé by the Seychelles Island Foundation.
* Aldabra at the Ministry of Environment, Seychelles
Today, the world's largest population inhabits Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles, where there are approximately 150, 000 individuals.
The Aldabra Island day gecko, or Aldabra day gecko ( Phelsuma abbotti abbotti ), has been found on the Aldabra Atoll ( Seychelles ).
In the Indian Ocean, it occurs from northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to the Red Sea and the Indian subcontinent, including Madagascar, Mauritius, the Comoros, the Aldabra Group, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and the Chagos Archipelago.
The Aldabra giant tortoise ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world.
The main population of the Aldabra giant tortoise resides on the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.
The isolation of Alphonse acts as a magnet to migratory birds and Seychelles Bird Records Committee has recorded more bird species here than anywhere south of the granitics apart from Aldabra, including the only record of Sociable Lapwing for the entire southern hemisphere.
* Malabar Island ( also called Middle Island ), part of the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles
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The neck of the Aldabra giant tortoise is very long, even for its great size, which helps the animal to exploit tree branches up to a meter from the ground as a food source.
As the largest animal in its environment, the Aldabra tortoise performs a role similar to that of the elephant.
Aldabra and islands
This species, Africa's most widespread member of the genus Corvus, occurs from Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Senegal, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea down to the Cape of Good Hope and on the large island of Madagascar, the Comoros islands, Aldabra, Zanzibar, Pemba and Fernando Po.
Most of the islands also had one or more species of giant tortoise before humans arrived ; 19 of 20 giant tortoise species are presently extinct, and only the Aldabra Giant Tortoise still survives.
NASA space shuttle photo showing all the islands of the Aldabra Group
Colonies are also found on numerous Indian Ocean islands including Aldabra, Christmas Island, Maldives and Mauritius.
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Other species include the Komodo Dragon, Green Anaconda, Mountain Chicken, Alligator Snapping Turtle, False Gharial, King Cobra, Gila Monster, Frill-necked Lizard, Aldabra Giant Tortoise, Tuatara, Reticulated Python, Tiger Salamander, Three-toed Amphiuma, Pancake Tortoise, and over two dozen species of Pit Vipers from around the world.
Two species of bats, Paratriaenops pauliani and Pteropus aldabrensis, are known only from Aldabra.
A Pleistocene fossil from Aldabra, Indian Ocean, was described as Pterodroma kurodai.
Despite this, hundreds of non-breeding frigatebirds of both species are to be seen, these being probably from Aldabra.
There is a significant population of giant tortoises, but these come from the island Aldabra.
In the late 1970s a conservation project was started to move tortoises from Aldabra to Curieuse.
Aldabra and .
It is the only known breeding site outside Aldabra and Madagascar for Malagasy Pond Herons.
The second largest atoll by dry land area is Aldabra with 155 km².
Around a third of the land area is the island of Mahé and a further third the atoll of Aldabra.
File: Artis-turtles-Photo-by-Persian-Dutch-Network-2006. jpg | Aldabra tortoises at Artis
Adwaita ( sometimes spelled with two d's ) was an Aldabra Giant Tortoise brought to India by Lord Wellesley who handed it over to the Alipur Zoological Gardens in 1875 when the zoo was set up.
File: aldabra. giant. tortoise. arp. jpg | Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea
* Robert Clive's pet Aldabra Giant Tortoise died on Thursday, 23 March 2006 in the Kolkata zoo.
Adwaitya, an Aldabra Giant Tortoise, may have lived for up to 250 years.
Uninhabited and extremely isolated, Aldabra is virtually untouched by humans, has distinctive island fauna including the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, and is designated a World Heritage Site.
Aldabra was visited by Portuguese navigators in 1511.
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