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Félicité Island

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real estate developer Kishore Buxani in 2013. Buxani and Mukesh Valabhji, a Seychellois developer, started the construction of a resort in mid-2013. Today, the Six Senses Zil Pasyon resort, with 30 villas and a spa, covers a third of the island.
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Les Soeurs (The Sisters), which consists of Grande Soeur at 0.84 square kilometres (0.32 sq mi) and Petite Soeur at 0.34 square kilometres (0.13 sq mi). For much of the 20th century they were coconut
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Félicité and four granitic neighboring islands are considered "satellite islands" of La Digue. These four islands are routinely visited by tourists:
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Until the 1970s it was a coconut plantation that had a population of about 50. In the late 19th century, Félicité was home to Sultan Abdullah of
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Ile Cocos, a tiny islet (.017 km) off the north coast of Félicité which has been part of a marine park since 1996.
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In 2007, the Seychelles government granted a 99-year lease for the then-uninhabited island, which was taken over by
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is a heavy forested granitic island 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of
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Félicité Island is located in Seychelles
Seychelles
Seychelles
4°19′S 55°52′E / 4.32°S 55.87°E / -4.32; 55.87
Inner Islands
Seychelles
Indian Ocean
Seychelles
Group
Inner Islands
Sub-Group
Granitic Seychelles
Districts
La Digue and Inner Islands
Creole
French
East Africans
Indians
Time zone
SCT
UTC+4
ISO code
www.seychelles.travel/en/discover/the-islands/
La Digue
Seychelles
Perak
Singaporean
Marianne Island
Félicité.
Map.

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