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Europa Island
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Europa Island
Europa Island
is a 28 km
2
low-lying tropical
atoll
in the
Mozambique Channel
, about a third of the way from southern
Madagascar
to southern
Mozambique
. The island had never been inhabited until 1820, when the French family
Rosier
moved to it. The island officially became a possession of
France
in
1897
. The island, garrisoned by a detachment from
Réunion
, has a
weather station
and is visited by scientists. Though uninhabited, it is part of the "
Scattered Islands
" of the
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
administrative region. Europa Island was the setting of a 1968 episode of "
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
", partly focusing on the breeding habits of the
green sea turtle
.
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