Grand Gaube
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Grand Gaube is a town located in the Rivière du Rempart District, northern Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

. It lies on the coast of the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

. In the 60's and 70's its population was exclusively the Mauritian Creoles and Indo Mauritians, a handful of Franco Mauritians and three shop-keepers Chinese families. The town has two Debarcadere which is in creole language the harbour where the fishing boats will land their catch and are moored, one is by the school St Michel R C A School and the other is in Melville, another ward of the town.
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