What the records say
- When
- since Apr 1976
- Kind
- Territorial claim
- Coordinates
- 15.89° S, 54.52° E
- Region
- 3
- Significance
- 4
- Significance index
- 1
- Significance state1
- 2
- Significance state2
- 2
- Tangible significance
- 2
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Tromelin Island
Disputed island in the Indian Ocean
Tromelin Island, once called the Isle of Sand, is a low, flat island in the Indian Ocean about 500 km north of Réunion and about 450 km east of Madagascar. Both France and Mauritius claim sovereignty over the islands, and France includes it in the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, the fifth district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
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The source
- ICOW Territorial Claims 1816–2001Issue Correlates of WarCorrelates of War: free use with citation