Desroches Island
Desroches Island or Île Desroches is the main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. It is located 227 km southwest of the national capital Victoria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Desroches Airport.
Desroches Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Acp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Desroches Airport is an airport serving Desroches Island in the Seychelles. Desroches Island, a former coconut and timber plantation, is the main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands.
Desroches Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Seychelles
- Categories: cay, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Seychelles, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude
-5.68915° or 5° 41′ 21″ southLongitude
53.67086° or 53° 40′ 15″ eastPopulation
19Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)IATA airport code
DESUnited Nations Location Code
SC DESOpen location code
6H6M8M6C+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 23564975OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Desroches Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Desroches”
- Cebuano: “Île Desroches”
- Chinese: “德罗什岛”
- Chinese: “德羅什島”
- Dutch: “Desroches”
- Finnish: “Desroches Island”
- Finnish: “Desrochesin saari”
- Finnish: “Desrochesinsaari”
- Finnish: “Ile Desroches”
- Finnish: “Île Desroches”
- French: “Ile Desroches”
- French: “île Desroches”
- French: “Île Desroches”
- Galician: “Desroches”
- Galician: “Illa Desroches”
- Georgian: “დეროში”
- German: “Desroche”
- German: “Desroches”
- Italian: “Desroches”
- Italian: “isola Desroches”
- Italian: “Isola Desroches”
- Japanese: “デロッシュ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Desroches”
- Norwegian: “Desroches”
- Polish: “Desroches”
- Russian: “Дерош”
- Spanish: “Isla Desroches”
- Ukrainian: “Дерош”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Desroches Island”. Photo: Acp, CC BY-SA 3.0.