Tromelin Island
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Tromelin Island

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Local nameÎle Tromelin
NameÎle Tromelin
MottoLiberté, égalité, fraternité
AnthemLa Marseillaise
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Tromelin Island ( ; , -fril tʁɔmlɛ̃pron) is a low, flat 0.8 km2 (197.7 acre) island in the Indian Ocean, about 350 km (217.5 mi) east of Madagascar (Geographic coordinates . There are no harbours or anchorages and access by sea is difficult. The island has a 1200 m (3937 ft) airstrip. It is a French territory. It is claimed by Mauritius and Seychelles.

Tromelin is a low, scrub-covered sandbank about 1700 m (1.1 mi) long and 700 m (0.4 mi) wide, surrounded by coral reefs. The island is 23 ft (7 m) high at its highest point. It is a nesting site for seabirds and turtles.

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Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean

Banc du Geyser * Bassas da India * Europa Island * Glorioso Islands * Juan de Nova Island * Tromelin Island |

Outlying territories of European countries

Denmark
Greenland
France
French Southern and
Antarctic Lands
Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean (Banc du Geyser * Bassas da India * Europa Island * Glorioso Islands * Juan de Nova Island * Tromelin Island) * Île Amsterdam * Île Saint-Paul * Crozet Islands * Kerguelen Islands * Adélie Land
Italy
Pantelleria * Pelagie Islands (Lampedusa * Lampione * Linosa)
Netherlands
Aruba * Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire * Curaçao * Saba * Sint Maarten * Sint Eustatius)
Norway
Bouvet Island * Peter I Island * Queen Maud Land
Portugal
Azores * Madeira
Russia
Russian Far East * Khabomai Rocks * Kuril Islands * Kunashir * Ratmanov Island * Sakhalin * Shikotan * Siberia
Spain
Canary Islands * Ceuta * Melilla * Plazas de soberanía (Islas Chafarinas * Peñón de Alhucemas * Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera)
United
Kingdom
Anguilla * Bermuda * British Virgin Islands * Cayman Islands * Falkland Islands * Montserrat * Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha * Turks and Caicos Islands * British Antarctic Territory * British Indian Ocean Territory * Pitcairn Islands * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |



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