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Find here some facts and figures about
Mauritius Island.
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· Mauritius is located in the
Indian Ocean and is considered as the most accessible island in
the Indian Ocean.
· Mauritius is reachable by
direct flight from a large number of capital cities which make it
very easy to visit the island.
· The highest point in
Mauritius is the Mont Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire with
a height of eight hundred and twenty eight metres.
· The longest river of
Mauritius is Grand River South East and measures thirty four
meters long.
· The wettest area of Mauritius is Curepipe where it rains quite a lot during the
whole year, almost three metres yearly.
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The west coast is
considered as hottest part of Mauritius where the
temperature can reach thirty to thirty four degrees Celsius
in summer.
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The windy part of Mauritius
is the east coast.
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The Tamarind Falls is the
highest waterfall in Mauritius.
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The hottest months in
Mauritius are from December to February.
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The coolest months are from
June to August.
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October is the driest month
in Mauritius.
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The first Europeans to
visit Mauritius were the Portuguese.
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Mauritius was named after
the Prince of Netherlands, Maurice de Nassau, after the
Dutch claimed the island in 1598.
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The dodo is unique to
Mauritius and no longer exist. The dodo is a big flightless
bird. The dodo has been eaten by the Dutch sailors as it was
an easy bird to catch and the rest were killed by the pigs
and rats introduced by the sailors on the island.
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Mauritius got independence
on the 12 March 1968 and became a Republic in 1992.
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The University of Mauritius
has been constructed in 1972.
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The languages spoken in
Mauritius are English, French and Creole.
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Some
of the strongest cyclones who did hit the island were Carol
in 1960, Jenny in 1962, Gervaise in 1975,
Claudette in 1979 and Hollanda in the year 1994. The most
violent and strongest cyclone ever
was Carol which did leave the Island of Mauritius
devastated.
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