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Fun fact 1 about Mahé, Seychelles

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Mahé was first visited by the British in 1609 and not visited by Europeans again until Lazare Picault's expedition of 1742.

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Mahé, Seychelles

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Area
157 km²
Location
Seychelles
57th largest island in the world

Mahé is the largest island of Seychelles, with an area of 157.3 square kilometres (60.7 sq mi), lying in the northeast of the Seychellois nation in the Somali Sea part of the Indian Ocean. The population of Mahé was 77,000, as of the 2010 census.

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