Denis Island, Seychelles

Denis Island is named after a French explorer, Denis de Trobriant, who first sighted her from the vessel L’Etoile on 12 August, 1773, although the early Arab seafarers who were plying their trade in the Indian Ocean from as early as the 9th century would almost certainly have come across the island at a far earlier date. The same can undoubtedly be said of the pirates who haunted the area during the 17th and 18th centuries.

As Mahé became settled, it so happened that several of her satellite islands, including Denis, became inhabited in turn by early French settlers who introduced various crops, including sugar.

Having changed owners several times over the years, in 1975, Denis was purchased by Mr. Pierre Burkhardt, a French industrialist, who opened the island to tourism in December of 1977.

In 1999 Mr. Michael and Mrs. Kathleen Mason acquired the island and, today, continue the island’s tradition of offering the finest hospitality in the most stunning natural surrounds.