Astove Island

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Astove (English Astove Iceland ) is a small island in the Indian Ocean, just to the north of Madagascar, the island belongs to the Republic of Seychelles. It is located about 38 kilometers south of the Cosmoledo Atoll and belongs to the Aldabra Group, which is counted to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. Together with the Cosmoledo Atoll Astove the Island is sometimes referred to as the " Cosmoledo group ".

The Astove Island is about 6 km long, 4 km wide and has a land area of ​​nearly 5 km ². In Astove is a Upscale Atoll, in which the fine fringing reef lagoon has almost completely separated from the sea. The area of ​​the lagoon on Astove is 9.5 km ². The island is now uninhabited, on the west coast is still the abandoned settlement in the 1980s.

The intensive mining of guano in the past has obliterated the surface of the island, only a few trees, such as Pisonia growing on her. Introduced rats and domestic pigs have decimated the populations of seabirds, but come on Astove also four types of land birds before, such as the shield Raven ( Corvus albus).

• Uninhabited Island
• Island (Seychelles )
• Island (Africa)
• Island (Indian Ocean)
• Upscale Atoll