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St. François Atoll : ウィキペディア英語版
St. François Atoll

St. François Atoll is one of two atolls of the Alphonse Group of islands in the Seychelles that are part of the Outer Islands. It is located just three kilometers south of Alphonse Atoll, the second atoll of Alphonse Group.
The atoll is uninhabited and has two islands, St. François and Bijoutier Island.
==History==
It was discovered by Portuguese explorers and after 1562 the whole Alphonse group (Alphonse, St. François and Bijoutier) are sometimes collectively named on charts as San Francisco. This might explain how St. François was given its name. Chevalier Alphonse de Pontevez visited on 28 June 1730 and named St François possibly following the Portuguese name for the group. Some sources (giving the incorrect date for the visit) claim it was to commemorate the religious feast of St Francis de Sales of 29 January.
There is a small breeding population of 10-15 pairs of black-naped tern. A small colony of tropical shearwater was rediscovered in 2013, the first confirmed breeding record since the 1950s. Migratory bird numbers are huge and include globally significant numbers of crab plover and Saunders’s tern. Seychelles’ largest concentrations of whimbrel, ruddy turnstone and grey plover have also been recorded here. The only land bird is the house sparrow and this is its most southerly outpost in Seychelles. Significant numbers of hawksbill turtles and green turtles nest on St François and Bijoutier, and the waters of the atoll provide important foraging habitat for immature turtles of both species. Conservation work is carried out on the island by staff of Island Conservation Society based on Alphonse.

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