St. Brandon
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Saint Brandon, also known as the Cargados Carajos Shoals, is a southwest Indian Ocean archipelago of sand banks, shoals and islets belonging to the Republic of Mauritius. It lies about 430 km northeas
Satellite image of St. Brandon
Utetheisa pulchelloides, the heliotrope moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae found in Saint Brandon.
Ophioglossolambis violacea (Swainson, 1821) Naturalis Biodiversity Center
History of Mauritius
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The history of Mauritius begins with discovery by Portuguese and thus its appearance on European maps in the early 16th century. Mauritius was successively colonized by the Netherlands, France and Gre
First African slaves to Mauritius. Artist: Raouf Oderuth
Cantino planisphere (1502), Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC)
Parrot hunting on Mauritius by Johann Theodor de Bry, 1601