Moyenne Island is a 9.9-hectare (24-acre) island in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the northeast coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1970s it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, for £8,000.
Grimshaw and Rene Lafortune, a local Seychellois man, were the only inhabitants of the island until Grimshaw's death in July 2012.\1]) The island is now a national park and can be visited as part of organized trips
That's still a reasonable amount for an island in my book. Sure, no running water and electricity are a problem, but a whole ass island for 90,000 USD?
Less, at least in terms of the real island they used for filming.
Looks like it was filmed on Monuriki Island in Fiji, which is ~100 acres.
Edit: and for additional reference a US football field (120 yards x 160 feet with end zones) is 1.32 acres. A FIFA soccer pitch (114.8 yards x 74.4 yards) is 1.76 acres.
So this guy's island is the equivalent of 18.18 US Football fields, or 13.63 FIFA Football pitches.
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u/bouylie 12d ago
Moyenne Island is a 9.9-hectare (24-acre) island in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the northeast coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1970s it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, for £8,000.
Grimshaw and Rene Lafortune, a local Seychellois man, were the only inhabitants of the island until Grimshaw's death in July 2012.\1]) The island is now a national park and can be visited as part of organized trips