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Piton Des NeigesPiton des Neiges (Snow Peak) is a 3069m high inactive volcano on the island of Runion, one of the volcanic islands in the Mascarene Archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The volcanic island is considered to be about 3 million years old; the other two islands in the archipelago, Mauritius and Rodrigues, are 7.8 million and 1.5 million years old, respectively. The island possesses a high endemism of flowering plants (about 225); this has justified the creation of a biological reserve on the lower slopes of Piton des Neiges.
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