Mahé, and the two other nearby popular islands, La Digue and Praslin, are part of a group of 43 glimmering jewels called the Inner Islands. A fast ferry from Mahé gets you to Praslin in an hour ...

After growing up on the Isle of Skye, Alastair Jackson spent 18-months documenting life on 42 remote Scottish islands to compile an authentic record.

Just 30-or-so miles (50 kilometers) of ocean stretch between the nation’s 41 inner isles, the world's only mid-oceanic islands of granitic rock, a tightly packed inner core that’s a boon for ...