Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993)
Natural hazards: Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct volcanoes
Environment - current issues: NA
Geography - note: islands component is widely scattered across remote locations in the southern Indian Ocean
French Southern and Antarctic Lands People
Population: no indigenous inhabitants (July 2001 est.)
note: in 1997, there were about 100 researchers whose numbers vary from winter (July) to summer (January)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands Government
Country name: conventional long form: Territory of the French
Southern and Antarctic Lands
conventional short form: French Southern and Antarctic Lands