title: Booby Island, Seychelles
text: # Booby Island, Seychelles
  
  Booby is an island in Seychelles, lying north of Praslin and south of Aride Island. It has an area of 2.3 hectares. Booby Island is a high granite rock, densely covered with tropical vegetation. The name of the island was given through numerous flocks of boobies that nest on the island. The island is uninhabited.
  
  ## Tourism
  
  The island is visited by tourists for its wide variety of underwater creatures like fish, sharks and rays.
  
  ## Image gallery
  
  * Map 2
  