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  2. Google Earth - Wikipedia

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    Google Earth Outreach is a charity program, through which Google promotes and donates to various non-profit organizations. Beginning in 2007, donations are often accompanied by layers featured in Google Earth, allowing users to view a non-profit's projects and goals by navigating to certain related locations.

  3. Le Morne Brabant - Wikipedia

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    Le Morne Brabant [lə mɔʁn bʁa.bɑ̃] is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. It is highlighted by an eponymous basaltic monolith with a summit 556 metres (1,824 ft) above sea level. The summit covers an area of over 12 hectares (30 acres). There are many caves and overhangs on the steep slopes.

  4. Geography of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    A comprehensive map of Mauritius, including the country's outlying islands. The local climate is tropical, modified by southeast trade winds; there is a warm, dry winter from May to November and a hot, wet, and humid summer from November to May. Anticyclones affect the country during May to September. Cyclones affect Mauritius during November ...

  5. Google Street View - Wikipedia

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    Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Aapravasi Ghat. Port Louis District. 20°09′31″S 57°30′11″E  / . 20.158611°S 57.503056°E. / -20.158611; 57.503056  ( Aapravasi Ghat) Cultural (vi) 2006. In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to ...

  7. Wildlife of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    The wildlife of Mauritius consists of its flora and fauna. Mauritius is located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar . Due to its isolation, it has a relatively low diversity of wildlife; however, a high proportion of these are endemic species occurring nowhere else in the world.

  8. List of television channels in Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    MBC 1 (Mauritian TV channel) MBC 2 (Mauritian TV channel) MBC 3 (Mauritian TV channel) Kids Channel (Mauritian TV channel) List of newspapers in Mauritius. List of radio stations in Mauritius. List of television stations in Africa. Media of Mauritius.

  9. Google Street View coverage - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.