where did the above mentioned island take its name from?
In 1598, Dutch squadron under Admiral Wybrand van Warwyck landed at Grand Port and named the island "Mauritius", in honour of Prince Maurice van Nassau, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
Mauritius

In 1598, Dutch squadron under Admiral Wybrand van Warwyck landed at Grand Port and named the island "Mauritius", in honour of Prince Maurice van Nassau, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
what is the habitat of a dodo bird It may have inhabited the woods on the drier coastal areas of south and west Mauritius. what is dodo? It is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. what is this type of bird you just mentioned? These are birds that through evolution have lost the ability to fly. where do they originate? UNANSWERABLE name some of these birds Cretaceous patagopterygiformes, hesperornithids, the Cenozoic phorusrhacids etc.
wiki:25594150
Mauritius [SEP] Etymology
Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France. On 3 December 1810, the French surrendered the island to Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Under British rule, the island's name reverted to "Mauritius" . Mauritius is also commonly known as "Maurice" () and "Île Maurice" in French, "Moris" () in Mauritian Creole.