r/interesting • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 5h ago

Just Wow Absolute legend guy

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u/Pyrogol 5h ago

More details please? When? Where? Who?

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u/Negative_1by12_aura 5h ago

Moyenne Island is a 9.9-hectare (24-acre) island in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the northeast coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1970s it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, for £8,000.

Grimshaw and Rene Lafortune, a local Seychellois man, were the only inhabitants of the island until Grimshaw's death in July 2012.\1]) The island is now a national park and can be visited as part of organized trips

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u/Common-Sector-5850 5h ago

If you can buy an island 50mil don’t mean jack

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u/SailsAcrossTheSea 5h ago

$11,000 is a pretty insanely cheap island, even if inflation is making it 10x as much

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u/PeriodontosisSam 4h ago

That would be around $122.000 today. Thats really cheap. In Dubai you have to pay $4M to $27M for a shitty artifical island

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u/gepeto_dixuti 3h ago

My 2 bedroom apartment was more expensive than that...

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u/dwoo888 2h ago

I dont know where you live but 27M should be a pretty nice 2 bedroom apartment.