The fascination of these islands is the variety of environments, from a lunar landscape in which the vegetation appears as ribbons of scattered green, here and there, from one capricious hand, to islands with luxuriant tropical vegetation as the name could only mean. The marine bottom of these islands appears to be rich in coral and marine life, as once stated by Jacque Cousteau, one of major underwater explorers, “like the garden of the Eden of the Africans coasts bathed from the Atlantic”.
The geographic position of all the archipelagos, with regards to the main submarine currents, renders its waters particularly rich in life.