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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mascarene Islands

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7639821911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17 — Mascarene Islands

MASCARENE ISLANDS (occasionally Mascarenhas), the collective title of a group in the Indian Ocean cast of Madagascar, viz. Mauritius, Réunion and Rodriguez (q.v.). The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Mascarenhas, by whom Réunion, at first called Mascarenhas, was discovered.