Denis Private Island

Denis Private Island holds three hundred and seventy-five acres of coral island in the northern Seychelles, on the edge of the bank where the shallow water ends and the depth begins. Twenty-five beachfront cottages and one larger villa stand on that ground, which gives the estate one of the highest ratios of land to house in the register. The island is densely forested and carries endemic birds, a working lighthouse a century old, a cemetery of unrecorded origin and the only ecumenical chapel in the country. It is reached by air to its own grass strip, and there is no mobile signal.

What distinguishes the holding is that the ground is in use. The island runs a farm - cattle and poultry, dairy, eggs, pork and vegetables - and supplies its kitchens from it, which makes three hundred and seventy-five acres an economy rather than a setting. More than fifty hectares of woodland have been rehabilitated, and the lagoon carries national protected status as a spawning ground, so part of what the estate holds it holds under a rule written elsewhere. The material consulted here states private ownership by the Mason family, with operations run from an office in Victoria on Mahe.

The land is working. A farm with cattle, poultry and vegetables feeds the island's kitchens. Three hundred and seventy-five acres here is a productive holding, not a buffer around twenty-five cottages.

Part of it is held under a rule. Fifty hectares of woodland under restoration and a lagoon carrying national protection mean that a share of this estate's own ground is governed by a designation written somewhere else.

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• The island's own site - three hundred and seventy-five acres in the remote northern Seychelles; a grass airstrip, a working lighthouse a century old, a historic cemetery of unknown origin, the only ecumenical chapel in Seychelles; over fifty hectares of woodland rehabilitated; the lagoon holds national protected status as a spawning area; densely forested interior with endemic birds; farm-to-table dining; operations run from a head office in Victoria, Mahe. The site does not state the number of cottages.
• Private-island listing - three hundred and seventy-five acres; twenty-five beachfront cottages plus a beach villa of 325 sq m; an organic farm producing dairy, eggs, pork and vegetables with poultry and cattle on the island; a coral islet on the edge of the Seychelles bank, suited to big-game fishing and diving; privately owned by the Mason family; two entry points, the private airstrip and boat docks; no wi-fi in rooms, no cable television, no mobile signal

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375 acres is published by the island itself and by the listing; a figure of 143 hectares (about 353 acres) circulates elsewhere. The published acreage is carried and the discrepancy noted.

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · The Register · Edition 2026 · LHL-E-282
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