Rodrigues
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 100 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5086-5506-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rodrigues (French: iles Rodrigues), named after the Portuguese explorer Dom Diogo Rodrigues, is a semi-autonomous island part of the Republic of Mauritius located in the Indian Ocean, about 650 kilometres (400 mi) east of Mauritius. It is part of the Mascarene Islands which include Mauritius, Cargados Carajos shoals and the French island Reunion, other nearby island countries and territories include Tromelin, Agalega, Comoros, Mayotte and the Seychelles to the far north-west. The area of Rodrigues is 108 km2. It is of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reef, and just off its coast lie some tiny uninhabited islands and islets. The island used to be the tenth district of Mauritius before it gained autonomous status in 2001 and is governed by the Rodrigues Regional Assembly. The capital of the island is Port Mathurin. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в...