Seychelles is a small island country east of the African continent located in the Sea of Zanj due north of Madagascar, with Antsiranana as its nearest foreign city.

[4] The remaining islands are coralline, stretching over a 1,200-kilometre (750 mi) radius from Ile Aux Vaches in the northeast to the Aldabra Atoll in the southwest.

[4] The only other important islands by virtue of their size and population are Praslin and La Digue, situated about thirty kilometers to the northeast of Mahé.

[4] The granitic islands are founded on a fragment separated from the Indian continental plate during the Palaeocene about 66 million years ago during the break up of the supercontinent of Gondwana.

[6] These granitic islands are characterized by boulder-covered hills and mountains as high as 940 metres (3,080 ft) rising abruptly from the sea.

[4] Extensively developed coral reefs are found mainly on the east coasts because of the southwest trade winds and equatorial current.

[4] The coralline islands differ sharply from the granitic in that they are very flat, often rising only a few feet (one meter) above sea level.

[4] The Aldabra Islands, the largest coralline atoll with an area greater than Mahe, are a sanctuary for rare animals and birds.

[7] The Seychelles Bank is founded on a granite basement, a fragment separated from the Indian continental plate during the Palaeocene about 66 million years ago.

[4] High winds are rare inasmuch as most islands lie outside the Indian Ocean cyclone belt; Mahe suffered the only such storm in its recorded history in 1862.

[4] A major project was funded by Fonds Francais pour l'environnement Mondiale (FFEM) and implemented by Island Conservation Society.

Irrigated land: 0 km2 Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol This is a list of the extreme points of Seychelles, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.