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- <text id=93CT1403>
- <title>
- Tromelin Island--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tromelin Island
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: in the western Indian Ocean, 350 km east of
- Madagascar and 600 km north of Reunion
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 1 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 1 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in
- Washington, DC</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 3.7 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 12 nm</l>
- <l> continental shelf: 200 m depth or to depth of
- exploitation</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: claimed by Madagascar, Mauritius, and
- Seychelles
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: sandy
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: fish
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 0%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
- <l> other: 100% (scattered bushes)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 0 km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: wildlife sanctuary
- </p>
- <p>Note: climatologically important location for forecasting
- cyclones
- </p></body></article></text>
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