Port of Saint Leu. The island of Reunion is part of the Mascarene archipelago, along with the island of Mauritius.
Port of Saint Leu. The island of Reunion is part of the Mascarene archipelago, along with the island of Mauritius (200 km to the east) and Rodrigues (much further away to the east), the largest of them all. It is located to the southwest of the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius. Madagascar is far from 700 km to the W and France, called here "Métropole" (metropolis), about 10000 km. straight. It is located at 21 degrees south latitude and 55 degrees east longitude, between Ecuador and the Tropic of Capricorn, 300 km. north of the tropics. It has an almost elliptical and an area of 2512 km. square, ie 475 km. larger than the island of Tenerife. . Its perimeter is 207 km. Of volcanic origin, its terrain is very rough due mainly to the combination of two influences: the erosion and volcanism.
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