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Glorioso Islands
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Key facts
- Status
- District of French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archipelago
- Has part
- île Grande Glorieuse
- Country
- Madagascar
- Located in
- Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
- Continent
- Africa
- Area
- 5
- Elevation
- 12
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Body of water
- Mozambique Channel
- Image
- Glorioso Islands ISS002-E-6913.JPG
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- Commons category
- Glorioso Islands
- topic's main category
- Category:Glorioso Islands
- located in/on physical feature
- Mozambique Channel
- territory claimed by
- Comoros
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Encyclopedic overview
The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands (French: Îles Glorieuses or officially also Archipel des Glorieuses) are a group of islands and rocks totaling 5 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi). They are controlled by France as part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French overseas territory, but are also claimed by Comoros, Madagascar and formerly by Seychelles. They are geographically part of the Comoro Islands between the French overseas region of Mayotte and the nation of Madagascar.
Archipelago
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glorioso Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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