The area of long-term eruption ( the hotspot ), known as the Réunion hotspot, is suspected of both causing the Deccan Traps eruption and opening the rift that once separated the Seychelles plateau from India.

The island is located off the Southeastern African coast, northwest from Seychelles, and its capital city was Hammer Bay.

International tourism is a significant factor in the local economy of Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii and the Maldives, among others.

The only way to fly to Ascension is to fly with the RAF via RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England on an overnight charter, operated ( as of September 2010 ) by an Air Seychelles Boeing 767-300ER.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Seychelles, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Seychelles culture is a mixture of French and African ( Creole ) influences.

Politics of Seychelles takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Seychelles is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Imports of all kind are controlled by the Seychelles Marketing Board ( SMB ), a government parastatal which operates all the major supermarkets and is the distributor and licensor of most other imports.

New five star properties and the devaluation of the currency by nearly 33 % by the Seychelles Government is having a positive influence on the tourism sector as well.

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency-one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

In May 2010 an International Monetary Fund mission visited Seychelles and concluded the country is making progress.

The Seychelles International Business Authority ( SIBA ) is charged with overseeing the quickly growing offshore industry.

Seychelles is home to a number of offshore incorporation specialists which specialize in offshore company formation, mutual funds, hedge funds and captive insurance.

The Seychelles President claims that this has opened the door to a new industry for his country and encouraged economic growth by further removing over-reliance on traditional trades like fisheries and tourism, which is now falling rapidly as the country's main income but nevertheless, has experienced significant growth in recent years.

In Seychelles the main daily newspaper is the Seychelles Nation, dedicated to the local government views and current affairs and topics.

In the Seychelles, the main television and radio network is operated by the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation which offers locally produced news and discussion programmes in the Seychellois Creole language.

In terms of sea transport, the main port is Victoria, and Seychelles has no merchant marine.

The Seychelles government is one of the proponents of the Indian Ocean zone of peace concept and it has promoted an end to the United States presence on Diego Garcia.

Seychelles is represented in Russia through its embassy in Paris ( France ) and an honorary consulate in Saint Petersburg.

The U. S. Ambassador to Mauritius also is accredited to Seychelles.

It is administered as a French overseas territory, as the result of an agreement with the United Kingdom in 1954, but sovereignty is disputed with ownership claimed by both Mauritius and the 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.

The Aldabra Atoll, along with Des Roches and Farquhar, was part of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 until Seychelles independence in 1976.

A huge eruption of this hotspot 65 million years ago is thought to have laid down the Deccan Traps, a vast bed of basalt lava that covers part of central India, and opened a rift which separated India from the Seychelles Plateau.

The northern part of the Mascarene plateau includes the Seychelles and Agalega Islands.

The basalt deposits in the Seychelles are from the Deccan Traps eruption, which occurred in the central part of the Indian subcontinent 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.

On November 8, 1965, the United Kingdom split Île Desroches from the Seychelles to become part of the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory.

The Farquhar Atoll is part of the Farquhar Group of islands in the Seychelles that are part of the Outer Islands.

It is the most southerly part of the Seychelles.

From 1965 to the independence of the Seychelles in 1976, they were a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

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.

* Malabar Island ( also called Middle Island ), part of the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles

Assumption Island is a small island located at in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar and is part of the country of the Seychelles.

Île Platte or Platte Island — is part of the Southern Coral Group of the Outer Islands ( Coralline Seychelles ).

The Providence Atoll is part of the Seychelles, in the Farquhar Group.

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

* Farquhar Group, a group of islands that are part of the Seychelles

A sparsely populated group of coral islands in the Indian Ocean, politically part of the Seychelles.

It was administered by Britain as part of the Seychelles until 8 November 1965 when it was

In 2004, 47 Seychelles Fody from Fregate Island and 58 Seychelles Warbler from Cousin Island were relocated to Denis as part of a Nature Seychelles conservation project.

Aride Island is the northernmost granitic island in the Seychelles ( Bird Island is the northernmost Seychelles island overall ) and is part of the district of Grand ' Anse, located 10 km north of Praslin island and is 68 hectares in area.