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- @node Header (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section Header (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Affiliation:
- (overseas territory of France)
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- @end display
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- @node Geography (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section Geography (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Location:
- in the southern Indian Ocean, about equidistant between Africa, Antarctica,
- and Australia
- Map references:
- Antarctic Region, Standard Time Zones of the World
- Area:
- total area:
- 7,781 km2
- land area:
- 7,781 km2
- comparative area:
- slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Delaware
- note:
- includes Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Crozet;
- excludes Terre Adelie claim of about 500,000 km2 in Antarctica that is not
- recognized by the US
- Land boundaries:
- 0 km
- Coastline:
- 1,232 km
- Maritime claims:
- exclusive economic zone:
- 200 nm from Iles Kerguelen only
- territorial sea:
- 12 nm
- International disputes:
- Terre Adelie claim in Antarctica is not recognized by the US
- Climate:
- antarctic
- Terrain: volcanic
- Natural resources:
- fish, crayfish
- Land use:
- arable land:
- 0%
- permanent crops:
- 0%
- meadows and pastures:
- 0%
- forest and woodland:
- 0%
- other:
- 100%
- Irrigated land:
- 0 km2
- Environment:
- Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct volcanoes
- Note:
- remote location in the southern Indian Ocean
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- @node People (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section People (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Population:
- no indigenous inhabitants; note - there are researchers whose numbers vary
- from 150 in winter (July) to 200 in summer (January)
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- @node Government (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section Government (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Names:
- conventional long form:
- Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- conventional short form:
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- local long form:
- Territoire des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises
- local short form:
- Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises
- Digraph:
- FS
- Type:
- overseas territory of France since 1955; governed by High Administrator
- Bernard de GOUTTES (since May 1990), who is assisted by a 7-member
- Consultative Council and a 12-member Scientific Council
- Capital:
- none; administered from Paris, France
- Administrative divisions:
- none (overseas territory of France); there are no first-order administrative
- divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 3 districts named
- Ile Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam; excludes Terre
- Adelie claim in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US
- Independence: none (overseas territory of France)
- Flag:
- the flag of France is used
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- @node Economy (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section Economy (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Overview:
- Economic activity is limited to servicing meteorological and geophysical
- research stations and French and other fishing fleets. The fishing catches
- landed on Iles Kerguelen by foreign ships are exported to France and
- Reunion.
- Budget:
- revenues $17.5 million; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of
- $NA (1992)
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- @node Communications (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section Communications (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Ports:
- none; offshore anchorage only
- Merchant marine:
- 16 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 292,490 GRT/514,389 DWT; includes 2
- cargo, 4 refrigerated cargo, 4 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 oil tanker, 3 bulk,
- 1 multifunction large load carrier; note - a captive subset of the French
- register
- Telecommunications:
- NA
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- @end display
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- @node Defense Forces (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- @section Defense Forces (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
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- @display
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- Note:
- defense is the responsibility of France
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- @end display
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