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- Geography
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- Total area: 7,781 km2; land area: 7,781 km2; includes Ile
- Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Crozet;
- excludes claim not recognized by the US of about 500,000 km2
- in Antarctica known as Terre Adelie.
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- Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Delaware.
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- Land boundaries: none.
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- Coastline: 1,232 km.
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- Maritime claims:
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- Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
- Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploration;
- Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
- Territorial sea: 12 nm.
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- Disputes: claim in Antarctica (Terre Adelie) not recognized
- by the US.
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- Climate: antarctic.
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- Terrain: volcanic.
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- Natural resources: fish, crayfish.
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- Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows
- and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other.
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- Environment: Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct
- volcanoes.
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- Note: located in the southern Indian Ocean about equidistant
- between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
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