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class=artititle>3B9/OE4AAC Rodrigues Island 2014</H1><A
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">OE4AAC will be active again from Rodrigues Island
10-18 February 2014 as 3B9/OE4AAC<BR>He will be active on HF Bands
CW<BR>QSL via home call<BR><IMG style="WIDTH: 800px; HEIGHT: 600px"
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src="http://at-communication.com/upload/Image/Rodrigues_3B9-OE4AAC_2014_DX-News.jpg"><BR><BR>The
island was named after the Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues in February
1528. It still has the same name from then. Many maps also describe it as
Diego Roiz.<BR>From the 10th century, Arabs have been known to visit the
Mascarene Islands. A 12th-century map by the Arab geographer Ash-Sharif
al-Idrisi supposedly contains them, and the Cantino planisphere of c.1500
and some other contemporary maps clearly show the three islands of the
Mascarenes as<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I><B>Dina
Arobi</B></I><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(or<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Harobi</I>),<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Dina Margabin</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Dina Moraze</I>. These are
apparently corrupted transliterations or transcriptions of the Arabic<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I><B>Diva Harab</B></I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("Desert Island"),<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Diva Maghrebin</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("Western Island") and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Diva Mashriq</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("Eastern Island"). While the
second clearly refers to Réunion, sources disagree about which of the
other is Mauritius and which one Rodrigues, which are both to the east of
Réunion and arranged in a somewhat stylised way on these maps. However,
even in its original state, Rodrigues had some karst, while Mauritius even
after suffering 500 years of deforestation can by no means be called
"desert" even in a colloquial
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