Fregate Island Private

Frégate holds seven hundred and forty acres of granite, banyan forest and shore at the eastern edge of the Seychelles' inner islands. Sixteen villas stand on it and no more than forty guests at a time. Seven beaches are strung round the coast, and the estate rations them by protocol rather than by distance: at the top of the steps to each one stands a sign, and a guest who turns it to read *Beach Occupied* has that shore to themselves for the day. Nowhere else in this register is a piece of ground booked the way a table is booked.

Most of the island is left alone. Two hundred years of plantation had cleared the native woodland almost entirely, and what is happening now is restoration rather than preservation: the forest is coming back, and with it the Seychelles magpie robin, down to fourteen birds three decades ago and past a hundred since. Around 2,200 free-roaming Aldabra tortoises live here, which is to say the island's permanent population outnumbers its guests fifty-five to one. Roughly seventy per cent of what the kitchens serve is grown or caught on the island.

A shoreline on a booking sheet. Seven beaches and sixteen villas mean the arithmetic works, and the sign makes it explicit. Privacy here is not implied by acreage; it is issued, one beach at a time.

Held for the tortoises first. Forty people share seven hundred and forty acres with more than two thousand animals that were here before the villas and will outlast them. The register records who the majority is.

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• Operator and trade material - private island of seven hundred and forty acres with sixteen villas and a maximum of forty guests; seven beaches, each with a sign a guest may turn to reserve it for the day; around seventy per cent of food produced on the island
• Conservation record - the Seychelles magpie robin was reduced to fourteen birds and has been restored past a hundred through a programme with BirdLife International; some 2,200 free-roaming Aldabra giant tortoises live on the island; the native woodland is regenerating after two centuries of plantation

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accommodation is published as sixteen villas and as seventeen residences.

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · The Register · Edition 2026 · LHL-E-283
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