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Dec 9, 2009

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Southern and Antarctic Lands

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Map of Southern and Antarctic Lands
Status: Overseas Territory Administrator: Michel Champon (2005) Land area: 3,023 sq mi (7,829 sq km, excluding Adélie Land) Capital: Port-au-Français Major sources and definitions

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This territory is uninhabited except for the personnel of scientific bases. It consists of Adélie Land (166,752 sq mi; 431,888 sq km) on the Antarctic mainland (which the U.S. does not recognize) and the following islands in the southern Indian Ocean: the Kerguelen and Crozet archipelagos and the islands of Saint-Paul and New Amsterdam.

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