Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
North Pacific Ocean: French Southern and Antarctic Lands: Adélie Land: Dumont d'Urville Station: 432,000 [27] Overseas territory: Antarctica: Under the terms of the Antarctic Treaty. 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 ...
Clipperton Island (French: La Passion–Clipperton [la pasjɔ̃ klipœʁtɔn]; Spanish: Isla de la Pasión), also known as Clipperton Atoll [5] and previously as Clipperton's Rock, [6] is an 8.9 km 2 (3.4 sq mi) uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The only French territory in the North Pacific, Clipperton is 10,675 km ...
New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 220 km (140 mi) southwest of Vanuatu and 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia. [5]
Deadly violence in the French island of New Caledonia erupted for a third day Wednesday, with armed clashes between protesters, militias and police, and buildings and cars set on fire in the ...
3.4.2 French Polynesia (in the South Pacific Ocean) 3.4.3 New Caledonia (in the South Pacific Ocean) 3.4.4 Wallis and Futuna (in the South Pacific Ocean) 3.5 South ...
It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls [5] stretching over more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. The total land area of French Polynesia is 3,521 square kilometres (1,359 sq mi), [2] with a population of 278,786 (Aug. 2022 census) [3] of which at least 205,000 live in the Society Islands and the ...
Coral Sea Islands Coral Sea Islands Territory External territory of Australia: English: Coral Sea Islands — Coral Sea Islands Territory: Willis Island: Uninhabited: 3 km 2 (1 sq mi) Easter Island: Special territory of Chile: Spanish: Isla de Pascua Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui: Hanga Roa: 6,148 [34] 163.6 km 2 (63 sq mi) French Polynesia Overseas ...
Underscoring those efforts, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu will host in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia between Dec. 4-8 the South Pacific Defence Ministers Meeting, the first ...