ÃŽle de la Passe

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The Ile de la Passe is one of the coast 's largest district of the country Grand Port offshore island in the southeast of Mauritius.

The island formed from limestone is 250 meters long, up to 170 meters wide in northwest-southeast extension, has a size of 4 hectares and is located about 1 km off the coast of Mahebourg on the single opening of the coral reef, pass through the larger ships can.

On the uninhabited island there are the remains of an ancient fortification that controlled the entrance to the harbor of the ancient capital Grand Port, it was in 1810 the scene of the Battle of Grand Port.

Warehouse and cannonball oven on the Ile de la Passe.