Where is Moyenne Island?
Moyenne Island is a small island (9.9 ha or 24 acres) in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the north coast of Mahé, Seychelles. Since the 1970s onwards, it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw for £8,000 (about 10,000 dollars).
How did Moyenne Island become a National Park?
With Patel and others, he set up a perpetual trust to protect the island and signed an 2009 agreement with the Seychelles' Ministry of Environment that included Moyenne as part of Ste Anne Marine Park, but granted it its own special status. With that, Moyenne Island National Park, the world's smallest national park, was born.
Where is Moyenne in the Seychelles?
Moyenne is very close to Mahe (the main island of the Seychelles) – only about 5 km away. It is part of Ste Anne Marine National Park. It has the signature turquoise waters of the Seychelles and even a few beaches that you can enjoy while you’re there. We did spend some time on the beach right next to the island’s only restaurant.
How many people visit Moyenne Island a day?
Even during peak tourist season, there are rarely more than 50 visitors on the island at any one time, and never more than 300 over the course of a day. Six islands make up the Ste Anne Marine Park, but Moyenne is the only one, aside from tiny Ile Cachee, with no hotel development or other forms of private land ownership.
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