Seychelles International Airport, or Aéroport de la Pointe Larue in French, is the international airport of the Seychelles located on the island of Mahé near the capital city of Victoria. The airport is the home base and the head office of Air Seychelles and features several regional and long-haul routes due to its importance as the gateway to a major international leisure destination.
Praslin Island Airport also known as Iles des Palmes Airport, is an airport at Grand Anse on Praslin Island in the Seychelles. It is served by Air Seychelles, which flies scheduled flights to Mahé and charters to the other islands in the Seychelles. The airport has the capacity to handle over 1500 passengers daily and over half a million passengers annually.
The Amirante Islands are a group of coral islands and atolls that belong to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
Mahé is the largest island of Seychelles, with an area of 157.3 square kilometres (60.7 sq mi), lying in the northeast of the Seychellois nation in the Somali Sea part of the Indian Ocean. The population of Mahé was 77,000, as of the 2010 census. It contains the capital city of Victoria and accommodates 86% of the country's total population. The island was named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France.
The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles (archipelago) is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east. The local Seychellois Creole name for the outer islands is Zil Elwannyen Sesel, while the French name is Îles Eloignées. They are all of coral formation, and in the western Indian Ocean.
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Bird Island Airport serves Bird Island, a small island 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles.
Marie Louise Island is a low-lying coral island in the Amirantes group of the Outer Islands of the Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean, with a distance of 308 km south-west of Victoria, Seychelles.
Alphonse Airport is an airport serving Alphonse Island, the sole island of the Alphonse Atoll in the Seychelles. The runway is next to the Alphonse Island Resort.
Assumption Island Airport is an airport serving Assumption Island in the Seychelles. The island is 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the Aldabra Atoll and is part of the Aldabra Group.
Coëtivy Airport is an airport serving Coëtivy Island in the Seychelles. The island is 290 kilometres (180 mi) south-southeast of Victoria, capital of the Seychelles on Mahe Island. Along with Île Platte, the nearest neighbor 171 kilometres (106 mi) northwest, it comprises the Southern Coral Group of the Outer Islands.
Desroches Airport is an airport serving Desroches Island in the Seychelles.
Farquhar Airport is an airport serving Farquhar Atoll, part of the Farquhar Group of islands in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
D'Arros Island Airport is an airstrip serving D'Arros Island in the Seychelles. The airport is 255 kilometres (158 mi) west-southwest of the Seychelles capital of Victoria on Mahé Island.
Platte Island Airport is an airstrip serving Platte Island in the Seychelles.
Denis Island Airport is an airstrip serving Denis Island in the Seychelles.
Frégate Island Airport is an airstrip serving Frégate Island in the Seychelles. The runway is along the northeast shore of the island.
Remire Island Airport is an airfield serving Remire Island in the Seychelles. It has the shortest runway of all aerodromes in the Seychelles.
Astove Island Airport is an airstrip serving Astove Island in Seychelles. The island is 1,040 kilometres (650 mi) southwest of the Seychelles capital of Victoria on Mahé Island.
