The
Outer Islands or
Coralline Seychelles (archipelago) is a collective term for those
islands of the
Seychelles that are not on the shallow
Seychelles Bank (Seychelles Plateau) which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands
archipelago to the east. The local
Seychellois Creole name for the outer islands is
Zil Elwannyen Sesel, while the French name is
Îles Eloignées. They are all of
coral formation, and in the western
Indian Ocean.