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The geology of Seychelles is an example of a felsic granite microcontinent that broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana within the past 145 million years and become isolated in the Indian Ocean.
The islands are primarily granite rock, with some sequences of sedimentary rocks formed during rift basin periods or times when the islands were submerged in shallow water.

The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama, though Seychelles was likely already known to Arab navigators and other sailors for many centuries.
On 15 March 1503, the scrivener Thomé Lopes noted the sighting of an elevated island, doubtless one of the granitic islands and almost certainly Silhouette Island.
The first recorded landing was by the men of the English East India Company ship Ascension, which arrived in Seychelles in January 1609.
The islands were claimed by France in 1756.
Seychelles remained uninhabited until the first settlers arrived on board the ship Thélemaque, which arrived on 27 August 1770.
Captain Leblanc Lecore landed the first colonists, comprising 15 white men, eight Africans and five Indians.
The Seychellois Creole language developed as a means of communication between the different races.
The British frigate Orpheus commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794.
Terms of capitulation were drawn up and the next day Seychelles was surrendered to Britain.
Following the fall of Mauritius to British forces, Captain Phillip Beaver of the Nisus arrived at Mahé on 23 April 1811 and took possession of Seychelles as a permanent colony of Britain.
The Seychelles became an independent republic in 1976.
Following a coup d'état, a socialist one-party state ruled the country from 1977 to 1993.
The subsequent democratic Presidential elections were won by candidates of the same party.

The National Library of the Seychelles a library located in Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles.
It is the legal deposit and copyright library for Seychelles.

The politics of Seychelles have historical roots in both one-party socialism and autocratic rule.
Following independence from the United Kingdom in 1976, Seychelles was a sovereign republic until 1977, when the original President and leader of the Seychelles Democratic Party, James Mancham, was overthrown in a bloodless coup by the Prime Minister France-Albert René.
René installed a single-party socialist state under the Seychelles People's Progressive Front in 1979 which remained in power until 1993, when multiparty elections took place for the first time since independence, after restoring the multi-party system in 1991.
Modern day Seychelles governance takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Seychelles is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.
Executive power is exercised by the government.
Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly.

The Seychelles kestrel is a small bird of prey belonging to the genus Falco in the falcon family, Falconidae.
It is endemic to the Seychelles Islands where it is the only breeding bird of prey.
It is known in Seychellois Creole as the katiti after its loud, shrill call.