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Port Louis is a settlement on northeastern East Falkland. It was established by Louis de Bougainville on 5 April 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands, but was then transferred to Spain in 1767 and renamed Puerto Soledad (In Spanish, East Falkland is known as Isla Soledad). Map of Port Louis, surveyed in 1774 (West-Up map)
Port-LaJoye was founded in 1720 on Île Saint-Jean, now Prince Edward Island. Settlement in the area began with the arrival of an expedition sent by the Comte de Saint-Pierre, who settled West of the Harbour entrance to the site named Port-LaJoye. Port-LaJoye became the administrative centre, although other sites had greater commercial potential.
The first European to establish a settlement in the vicinity was British trader James Paddon in 1851. Eager to assert control of the island, the French established a settlement nearby three years later in 1854, moving from Balade in the north of the island [citation needed]. This settlement was initially called Port-de-France and was renamed ...
The settlement is located on the shore of the Gulf of Morbihan. About 45 residents spend winter there, although the group can reach over 120 people in the summer. The location was chosen in 1949 by the head of the mission Pierre Sicaud for sheltered location which was suitable for the construction of an air field, though this was never built.
Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money; Settlement (litigation), a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case; Settlement (trust), a deed whereby property is given by a settlor into trust; Thomson Bay Settlement, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, also known as simply The Settlement
Significant demographic shifts in the island population began in 1962 when the French-financed Mauritian company Societé Huilière de Diego et Peros, which had consolidated ownership of all the plantations in the Chagos in 1883, [21] sold the plantations to the Seychelles company Chagos-Agalega Company, which then owned the entire Chagos ...
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The islands became known in the 16th century, when the Spanish discovered Amsterdam Island on 18 March 1522, which was later claimed and named by the Dutch. [10] Saint Paul Island was discovered in 1559 by the Portuguese. [10] The Crozet islands were discovered on 24 January 1772 by French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne during an ...