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The French Southern and Antarctic Lands are an overseas territory of France that consist of the following: Adélie Land (Terre Adélie): This is the French claim on the southern most continent of Antarctica. Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet): A group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean, located south of Madagascar.
Until 1955, the Kerguelen Islands were administratively part of the French Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies. That same year, they collectively became known as Les Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and were administratively part of the French Département d'outre-mer de la Réunion.
Port-aux-Français (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ o fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is the main settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, and French Southern and Antarctic Lands, in the south Indian Ocean. Occupancy [ edit ]
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The Crozet Islands (French: Îles Crozet; or, officially, Archipel Crozet) 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.
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (est.1955) — a dependent territory of Overseas France Composed of islands in the tropical southwestern and subantarctic southern Indian Ocean , and a French territorial claim on Antarctica .
Alfred-Faure or Port Alfred is a permanent French scientific station on Île de la Possession (Possession Island) of the subantarctic Crozet Archipelago of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the South Indian Ocean.
The southern part of the Kerguelen Islands, with Mont Ross at right (white spot, top of image is north) and on the left, the Glacier Cook (white spot) and the Peninsula Rallier du Baty. Mont Ross in December 2013 (austral summer) shoot from the French research and supply vessel Marion Dufresne