Île du Port
| Île du Port | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Kerguelen | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 11 ′ S , 69 ° 36 ′ E | |
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| length | 12.8 km | |
| width | 10 km | |
| surface | 43 km² | |
| Highest elevation | K 13 340 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Île du Port is an uninhabited island in the Kerguelen Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean . Politically, it belongs to the French overseas territory Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF).
geography
Île du Port is located in the Baie du Hillsborough and is therefore surrounded to the north, west and south by Grande Terre , the large main island of the archipelago. Île du Port has a length of almost 13 km, a width of up to 10 km and an area of 43 km². This makes it the fifth largest island in the archipelago after Grande Terre , Foch , Howe and Saint-Lanne Gramont . The highest point on the hilly island is the K 13 in the southwest at 340 m, the second highest is the Mont du Signal at 293 m above sea level. The island, like all Kerguelen Islands, is of volcanic origin.
Individual evidence
- ^ Roger Brunet : Tableau général de la France d'outre-mer . In: Mappemonde . No. 54 , 1999, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF), p. 43 (French, online [PDF; 43 kB ; accessed on May 15, 2017]).
- ↑ Îles Kerguelen. Topographic map 1: 200,000. In: Géoportail. Institut national de l'information geographique et forestière (IGN), accessed on May 15, 2017 (French).