Victoria, Seychelles — Forty out of the 115 islands of the Seychelles archipelago, located in the western part of the Indian Ocean, are formed from hard, reddish-grey granite rocks.
Indeed, these granitic islands in the Seychelles are believed to be the oldest ocean islands in the world, the crumbs left behind from the continental breakfast breakup of what was once the supercontinent of Gondwana before the Indian subcontinent was pushed away from the Mascarene plateau by the expanding ocean floor 66 million years ago.
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