D'Arros Island
D' Arros is a small island in the western Indian Ocean. It is one of the geographically and geopolitically Amiranten to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles island republic. The island belonged to 2012, the L'Oreal heiress Liliana Bettencourt, the selling price was at 60 million U.S. dollars.
Geography
The oval, densely vegetated island is located 255 km southwest of Mahé, the main island of the Seychelles, and only two kilometers to the northwest of Saint -Joseph Atoll, is from the latter by 60 to 62 meters deep water ( much deeper than wide ranges of Amirante bank) from a 1.1 km wide channel clearly separated. D' Arros rises little more than three meters above the sea level. D' Arros is an oval, flat island made of coral sand, with a northeast-southwest orientation, and has a land area of almost 1.5 square kilometers. The island sits on a similarly oriented Plattformriff, 2.8 kilometers by 1.4 kilometers measures. A shallow sand tip extends 800 meters from the island to the northeast. The island is located in the northern part of the reef. Dry Falling reef areas extend 250 to 400 feet wide in the south, while the north is only a 75 meter narrow fringing reef.
Much of the island's land area is covered with coconut palms and Casuarina equisetifolia. A small part is cultivated for their own consumption of the inhabitants.
D' Arros is privately owned. A nephew of the last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi bought it in 1975, he set the commercial use and promoted conservation; In 1998 the island was sold to a third party. In the meantime, she was owned by Liliane Bettencourt. The island has a population of 40 Bettencourt sold in August 2012 the island. There are some economic and residential buildings on the coast and in the interior of the island. A larger building is available for use by guests who rent the island, and the smaller, continually occupied building for the staff.
A location in the southwest 975 meters long, unpaved airstrip ( ICAO code FSDA ) divides the island into two sectors visually. There are no scheduled airlines, but branches of scheduled flights to the neighboring Desroches Island from occasionally to D' Arros.
History
The island was discovered in the 18th century by European sailors. The island name dates back to the naval officer Baron d' Arros, the (then Île de France) was from 1770 to 1771 naval commander in Mauritius. Although here grew naturally coconut trees, were formerly also created by French colonialists to Kopragewinnung plantations.