Mapping Resources on Rodrigues Island to Sustain Human Activity Rodrigues is a partly autonomous island found 650 kilometers east of Mauritius. One of the more populated islands in this grouping, it is home to 40,000 people who live off reef and subsistence farming; it has few support services...
Showing a limited preview of this publication: Abstract This paper is a first presentation of a Chinese Map of the World or Kunyutu 坤輿圖 discovered in a Federal library in Berne in 2017. It focusses on the rendering of the 7000 characters contained within the map. The translation of the...
Diego Garcia, coral atoll, largest and southernmost member of the Chagos Archipelago, in the central Indian Ocean. Administratively, it was a dependency of Mauritius for most of its history, but since 1965 it has been part of the British Indian Ocean Ter
(1 October 2020 to 30 June 2021) the R/V made two logistical missions in the Austral Islands (Saint-Paul and Amsterdam, Kerguelen and Crozet) as well as various scientific missions off the tropical islands of Mayotte, Mauritius, Tromelin and extra-tropical islands of Marion and Prince Edwards...
more especially from 1780 to 1810 as a result of French demand for slaves inMauritiusand Bourbon. This was succeeded by the discovery that cloves could be successfully grown on Zanzibar and by the development of flourishing plantations. British pressure on Saʿīd to end the export of slaves ...