Reunion
About Reunion
Réunion is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France within the African region. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately 679 kilometres east of the island of Madagascar and 175 kilometres (94 nmi) southwest of the island of Mauritius. As of January 2026, it had a population of 910,985. Its capital and largest city is Saint-Denis.
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The technique for hand-pollinating vanilla was worked out by an enslaved man in Reunion called Edmund Albius, who used a stick or a blade of grass to flip up the flower's cap; he was freed but died in poverty.
from 351: No Such Thing As Pop Charts for Bagpipers · read transcript
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One erupting volcano visited in Reunion put on only a tiny show, just a little red and a little smoke on the side of a mountain.
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