Climate: antarctic
Terrain: volcanic
Natural resources: fish, crayfish
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other
Environment: Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct volcanoes
Note: located in the southern Indian Ocean about equidistant between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia
- People Population: 210 (July 1990), growth rate 0.00% (1990); mostly researchers
- Government
Long-form name: Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Type: overseas territory of France governed by High Administrator
Claude CORBIER (since NA 1988)
Flag: the flag of France is used