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First Class Private Paradise Return to nature—with a generous dose of understated opulence—on the Seychelles’ exclusive Frégate Island. By Paul Rubio Despite increased competition from celebrity-luring islets in the Caribbean and designdriven atolls in the Maldives, the world’s original lavish eco-retreat, the Seychelles’ Frégate Island Private, still champions an unparalleled recipe of natural grandeur and bespoke luxury. One of Earth’s only high-rising, mid-oceanic granite islands, the 750-acre Frégate retains the ecology and topography of its genesis, a splintered sliver of the 75 million-year-old supercontinent of Gondwana in the heart of the Indian Ocean. And it’s yours to explore. Part of the allure is getting
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