Territorial change
Open on the mapKerguelen Islands: Non-state territory → France (annexation)
1893 · Kerguelen Islands
What the records say
- When
- 1893
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Kerguelen Islands
- Coordinates
- 49.30° S, 69.50° E
- Process
- annexation
- Type
- Annexation (unilateral)
- Pop
- 0
- Area km2
- 6931
- Gaining
- France
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Kerguelen Islands
French-administered sub-Antarctic archipelago
The Kerguelen Islands, also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the subantarctic region. They are among the most isolated places on Earth, with the closest territory being the Heard Island and McDonald Islands territory of Australia roughly 450 kilometres to the southeast, and the nearest permanently inhabited territory being Madagascar more than 3,300 km (1,800 nmi) away.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation