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The French Southern and Antarctic Lands[6] (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) is an overseas territory (French: Territoire d'outre-mer or TOM) of France. It consists of: Adélie Land (Terre Adélie), the French claim on the continent of Antarctica. Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet), a group in the southern Indian Ocean ...
The coast of Adélie Land was discovered in January 1840 by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) who named it after his wife, Adèle. [ 7 ] This is the basis of the French claim to this Antarctic land. The first French research station, Port Martin, was built in 1950. It was destroyed by a fire in 1952, and replaced by ...
Territorial claims in Antarctica. Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed territories; however ...
Coordinates: 49°15′S 69°10′E. Kerguelen Islands. Îles Kerguelen (French) Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (French) (English: "Liberty, equality, fraternity") Anthem: "La Marseillaise". Location of the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Map of the Kerguelen Islands.
Crozet Islands. Orthographic projection centred over the Îles Crozet. 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.
Excluding the district of Adélie Land, where French sovereignty is effective de jure by French law, but where the French exclusive claim on this part of Antarctica is frozen by the Antarctic Treaty (signed in 1959), overseas France covers a land area of 120,396 km 2 (46,485 sq mi) [3] and accounts for 18.0% of the French Republic's land ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 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.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geography of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Geography of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands — located in the tropical southwestern and subantarctic southern Indian Ocean and in a French claim on Antarctica, a territorial part of Overseas France.