Amirante Islands#Remire Island

Remire, also called Eagle Iceland, called an island and a coral reef in the western Indian Ocean. The island and the reef are geographically to the Amiranten, geopolitically to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles island republic.

Remire is the most northerly inhabited island in the Amiranten; it lies about 245 kilometers southwest of Mahé, the main island of the Seychelles. Almost three kilometers north-east is the 10 km ² of the same Remire Reef (5 ° 5 ' S, 53 ° 21' O 5.083333333333353.35 ).

The oval island Remire is lushly vegetated, rises but little more than three meters above sea level and only has a land area of 0.27 km ².

The guano deposits on Remire were once highly sought after. Most of this natural fertilizer was dismantled after the First World War.

Today is located on the island only a small hotel on the northwest coast. Remire has long also has a 457 meter paved airstrip ( ICAO code FSSR ) that visually divides almost equally large sectors of the island in two.

Lady Denison - Pender | African Banks (North Iceland ) | Remire Reef | Remire | D' Arros | Saint -Joseph Atoll | Bertaut Reef | Desroches | Poivre Atoll | Etoile Cay | Boudeuse | Marie Louise | Desnoeufs

  • Island (Africa)
  • Island (Seychelles )
  • Island (Indian Ocean)
  • Coral reef
  • Island of Amiranten
Remire-Montjoly Outer Islands (Seychelles) International Civil Aviation Organization Amirante Islands#Lady Denison-Pender Shoal Amirante Islands#Bertaut Reef Amirante Islands#Boudeuse Cay Marie Louise Island
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