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Rodrigues (or, incorrectly, Rodriguez) is one of the Mascarene Islands and a dependency of Mauritius. It is located 560 km east of Mauritius, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is 109 km² in size, and surrounded by a coral reef. The capital of the island is Port Mathurin. 1976 File links The following pages link to this file: Rodrigues Categories: Central Intelligence Agency images ...
1976 File links The following pages link to this file: Rodrigues Categories: Central Intelligence Agency images ...
Mauritius (right) and Réunion (left) The Mascarene Islands (or Mascarenhas Archipelago) is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, which includes Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, and Cargados Carajos shoals. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
Some of the biodiversity of a coral reef. ...
Port Mathurin is the capital of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius. ...
As of 1996, the island's population was about 35,000. The main language is Mauritian Creole, while French and English are spoken or understood by a large proportion on the inhabitants. The main religion is Roman Catholic and a small minority of Protestants and Jehovah's Witnesses. Most of the inhabitants are of mixed African and French descent. The main industries are woodcrafting, farming, fishing and tourism. Mauritian Creole is a creole language or dialect from Mauritius. ...
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Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ...
Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...
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Political history
Rodrigues was discovered in 1528 by the Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues. The island was colonised by a group of shipwrecked French Huguenots led by Francois Leguat in 1691 but abandoned in 1693. A French colony was established at Port Mathurin in 1735, which was conquered by Britain in 1809. Britain then took over the island and administered it as part of Mauritius. The island voted strongly against independence in 1967, but nonetheless gained it as part of Mauritius the following year. Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. ...
Diogo Rodrigues (16th century) Portuguese explorer of the Indian ocean, after whom the island of Rodrigues is named. ...
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, or historically as the French Calvinists. ...
François Leguat (1637 - 1735) was a French explorer and naturalist. ...
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Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. ...
Port Mathurin is the capital of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius. ...
Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ...
1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Rodrigues People's Organisation was established in 1976 to campaign for autonomy, which was partly achieved in 2001 when a regional assembly was set up on the island. The Rodrigues Peoples Organisation (Organisation du Peuple Rodriguais) is a political party based in the Island of Rodrigues, Mauritius. ...
Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ...
Regional Assembly is a title which has universally been adopted by the English bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998[1]. Their original defined role was to channel regional opinions to the business-led Regional Development Agencies. ...
On February 4, 2003, Serge Clair became the Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues, and the Chief Executive of the newly established island council when the island obtained its autonomy. Today, Rodrigues has its own regional assembly which participates in the general assembly of Mauritius. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Serge Clair is the Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues since February 4, 2003. ...
The Chief Commisioner of Rodrigues is head of the Rodigues regional government. ...
Natural history Rodrigues is a volcanic island arising from a ridge along the edge of the Mascarene Plateau. Estimated to be from 1-4 million years old, in this time Rodrigues has developed a unique environment including many endemic species: 42 species of trees; the Rodriguan or golden bat (Pteropus rodricensis); two species of bird, the Rodrigues fody (Foudia flavicans) and the Rodrigues warbler (Acrocephalus rodericana); and a species of coral (Acropora rodriguensis). Other endemic animals such as Rodrigues giant tortoises and Rodrigues Solitaires are now extinct. Image File history File links acropora rodriguensis A type of coral endemic to the island of Rodrigues File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links acropora rodriguensis A type of coral endemic to the island of Rodrigues File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Rodrigues Solitaire. ...
Rodrigues Solitaire. ...
Binomial name Pezophaps solitaria (Gmelin, 1789) The Rodrigues Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) was a flightless member of the pigeon family endemic to Rodrigues, Mauritius. ...
A small island in the Adriatic sea An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water. ...
The Mascarene Plateau is an undersea plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. ...
In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ...
Orders Scleractinia Corals are gastrovascular marine cnidarians (phylum Cnidaria; class Anthozoa) existing as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically forming colonies of many individuals. ...
Binomial name Pezophaps solitaria (Gmelin, 1789) The Rodrigues Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) was a flightless member of the pigeon family endemic to Rodrigues, Mauritius. ...
In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ...
The coral reef of Rodrigues is of particular interest due to it having to self-seed. That is it receives no coral zooplankton from elsewhere. This has lead to the development of the above mentioned coral and a small number of species being present. Some of the biodiversity of a coral reef. ...
Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton is the aggregate community of weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of the ocean, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ...
The coffee plant, Café marron (Ramosmania rodriguesii), was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1979.
Interesting places Port Mathurin is the capital of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius. ...
English Bay (or Anse aux Anglais) is a small coastal village located in the north of Rodrigues Island. ...
External links
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