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Crozet Islands
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district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean
The Crozet Islands are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean that form part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. They are significant as a remote French territory in a strategically important oceanic region.
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- île de l'Est
- Country
- France
- Located in
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Area
- 25578400
- Elevation
- 1050
- Body of water
- Indian Ocean
- Highest point
- Mont Marion-Dufresne
- Image
- Vagues et manchots à l'assaut de la plage.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Crozet Islands
- topic's main category
- Category:Crozet Islands
- Commons gallery
- Archipel Crozet
- maritime identification digits
- 618
- time of discovery or invention
- 1772-01-24
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Encyclopedic overview
The Crozet Islands (French: Îles Crozet French pronunciation: [il kʁozɛ]; or, officially, Archipel Crozet [aʁʃipɛl -]) are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crozet Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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