Frégate

Island · Private island

१The island

Frégate in short.

Frégate is the easternmost granitic island, fifty-five kilometres out from Mahé on its own, with one resort on it and a conservation programme that is the reason the Seychelles magpie-robin still exists.

Can you go?

Guests only.

Photographs, under Creative Commons: Jlexa, CC BY 3.0

२The island

Fourteen birds

In 1980 there were fourteen Seychelles magpie-robins left alive, all of them on Frégate. By 2016 there were more than a hundred and twenty across several islands. That recovery was run from here, and it is one of the more complete pieces of conservation work anywhere in the Indian Ocean.

Over three thousand Aldabra giant tortoises now roam the island loose, and more than ten thousand native trees have been replanted after two centuries of plantation clearing.

३The island

Anse Victorin

The beach on the north of the island turns up regularly on lists of the best beaches in the world. Being private, it is almost always empty, which is a large part of why. Frégate was named by Lazare Picault for the frigatebirds over it, and was a pirate anchorage long before it was anything else.

४Getting there

How you arrive

Fifteen minutes by light aircraft from Mahé, arranged by the resort. There is no other way on.

५The facts

The sheet.

Checked 2 September 2026 against the sources named in our island file.

Area: 2.07 km²
East of Mahé: 55 km, the easternmost granitic island
Aldabra giant tortoises: over 3,000, roaming free
Seychelles magpie-robin: 14 birds in 1980, over 120 by 2016

६Questions

What people ask.

Can we visit Frégate?

Guests only.

How do you get to Frégate?

Fifteen minutes by light aircraft from Mahé, arranged by the resort. There is no other way on.

७The rest of it

What we do arrange.

We do not sell islands, and most of these could not be sold to anybody. What we do arrange is everything that gets you to them and around them once you land.