Southern and Antarctic Lands

Facts & Figures

Status: Overseas TerritoryAdministrator: Cécile Pozzo di Borgo (2014)Land area: 3,023 sq mi (7,829 sq km, excluding Adélie Land)Capital: Port-au-FrançaisMajor sources and definitions

Index

Southern and Antarctic Lands Profile

This territory is uninhabited except for the personnel of scientific bases. It consists of Adélie Land (166,752 sq mi; 431,888 sq km) on the Antarctic mainland (which the U.S. does not recognize) and the following islands in the southern Indian Ocean: the Kerguelen and Crozet archipelagos and the islands of Saint-Paul and New Amsterdam.

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