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3.2.4 Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (in the Indian Ocean) 3.3 North America. 3.3.1 Caribbean. 3.3.1.1 Guadeloupe ... This is a list of islands of France, ...
Île Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island) is an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) in the Indian Ocean, with an area of 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi; 1,500 acres).
It has an altitude of 3,070.5 m (10,074 ft), the highest peak in the Mascarene Islands and the Indian Ocean. The eastern part of the island is constituted by the Piton de la Fournaise, a much more recent volcano (500,000 years old) which is considered one of the most active on the planet.
The territory includes the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean near 43°S, 67°E, along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France. Adélie Land, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville after his wife, covers about 432,000 km 2 (167,000 sq mi).
Crozet Islands: Alfred Faure: 340 [27] Indian Ocean: Kerguelen Islands: Port-aux-Français: 7,215 [27] Population: 45 researchers in winter, 110 in summer. Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands: Amsterdam Island: Martin-de-Viviès: 66 [27] Saint Paul Island: Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean: Banc du Geyser: Saint Pierre, Réunion: 0 Mozambique ...
Since March 2011, the five overseas departments and regions of France are: French Guiana in South America; Guadeloupe in the Caribbean; Martinique in the Caribbean; Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa; Réunion in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.
The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (French: Îles Éparses or Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien) consist of four small coral islands, an atoll, as well as a reef in the Indian Ocean; they constitute the fifth district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, [1] though sovereignty over some or all of the islands is contested by the Comoros, Madagascar, and Mauritius.
Île Amsterdam (French pronunciation: [ilamstɛʁdam]), also known as Amsterdam Island and New Amsterdam (Nouvelle-Amsterdam), is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean that together with neighbouring Île Saint-Paul 90 km (49 nautical miles) to the south forms one of the five districts of the territory.