Rodrigues Island

E145665

island outer island of Mauritius volcanic island

Rodrigues Island is a small volcanic island in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the Republic of Mauritius and is known for its unique biodiversity and relative isolation.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Rodrigues	9
Rodrigues Island canonical	2
Island of Rodrigues	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	island ⓘ outer island of Mauritius ⓘ volcanic island ⓘ
administrativeStatus	autonomous outer island of Mauritius ⓘ
area	about 108 square kilometres ⓘ
capital	Port Mathurin ⓘ
climate	tropical maritime climate ⓘ
commonLanguage	French ⓘ Rodriguan Creole ⓘ
country	Mauritius ⓘ
currency	Mauritian rupee ⓘ
discoveredBy	Portuguese navigators ⓘ
distanceFromMauritius	about 560 kilometres east of Mauritius main island ⓘ
endemicSpecies	Rodrigues fruit bat ⓘ surface form: Rodrigues flying fox Rodrigues fody ⓘ Rodrigues warbler ⓘ
firstRecordedBy	Diogo Rodrigues ⓘ
geologicalOrigin	volcanic ⓘ
hasAirport	Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport ⓘ
hasFeature	large lagoon ⓘ
hasGovernmentBody	Rodrigues Regional Assembly ⓘ
hasImportantSite	Francois Leguat Giant Tortoise and Cave Reserve ⓘ
hasMarineProtectedAreas	Yes ⓘ
highestElevation	about 398 metres ⓘ
highestPoint	Mont Limon ⓘ
historicalStatus	former British colony as part of Mauritius ⓘ
knownFor	lagoon and coral reef ecosystems ⓘ relative isolation ⓘ unique biodiversity ⓘ
largestSettlement	Port Mathurin ⓘ
length	about 18 kilometres ⓘ
locatedIn	East Africa ⓘ surface form: East Africa region Indian Ocean ⓘ Mascarene Islands ⓘ
mainEconomicActivity	agriculture ⓘ fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ
namedAfter	Diogo Rodrigues ⓘ
officialLanguage	English ⓘ
partOf	Mauritius ⓘ surface form: Republic of Mauritius
population	around 40,000 inhabitants ⓘ
populationMajority	Creole people ⓘ
religionMajority	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
sovereignState	Mauritius ⓘ
surroundedBy	coral reef ⓘ
timeZone	Mauritius Time ⓘ
utcOffset	+4 ⓘ
width	about 8 kilometres ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Rodrigues Island
Description of subject: Rodrigues Island is a small volcanic island in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the Republic of Mauritius and is known for its unique biodiversity and relative isolation.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rodrigues fruit bat → endemicTo → Rodrigues Island ⓘ

Rodrigues fruit bat → nativeTo → Rodrigues Island ⓘ

Mascarene Islands → containsIsland → Rodrigues Island ⓘ