Place:Mauritius

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Place Information
Name
Mauritius
Alternate names
Maurice     (UN Terminology Bulletin (1993) p 66)
Mauricio     (Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978) p 873)
Maurício     (Rand McNally Atlas (1994) p 319)
Republic of Mauritius     (Wikipedia)
Type
Nation
Coordinates
20.3°S 57.583°E
Contained Places

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Dependency
Agalega ( 1968 - )
Cargados Carajos
Rodrigues ( 1968 - )
District
Black River
Flacq
Grand Port
Moka
Pamplemousses
Plaines Wilhems
Port Louis
Rivière du Rempart
Savanne
Inhabited place
Anse aux Anglais
Beau-Bassin
Curepipe
Port Mathurin
Quatre Bornes
Rose-Hill
Triolet
Vacoas-Phœnix
Unknown
Bambous
Bel Etang
Brisée Verdière
Case Noyale
Chamarel
Chemin Grenier
Grand Bay
Grand Bois
Grande Gaube
Le Ravin
Long Mountain
Mapou
Montagne Blanche
Petite Rivière
Poudre D'Or
Quartier Militaire
Rivière Noire
Rivière Sèche
Rodriques
Saint Julien
Souillac
Trois Îlots
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Mauritius (;  ; Mauritian Creole: Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres (560 mi) east of Madagascar. In addition to the island of Mauritius, the Republic includes the islands of St. Brandon, Rodrigues and the Agalega Islands. Mauritius is part of the Mascarene Islands, with the French island of Réunion 200 km (125 mi) to the southwest and the island of Rodrigues 570 km to the northeast.

The island of Mauritius is renowned for having been the only known home of the dodo. The Dodo is a lesson in extinction. First sighted around 1600 on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, the Dodo was extinct less than eighty years later.

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