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French Southern and Antarctic Lands: map and facts

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands is in the Indian Ocean. It covers 7,668 km². Its highest point is Grand Ross, at 1,850 m.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands and the sea around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Grand Ross. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Area: 7,668 km² (CIA World Factbook (archived)). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 7,260 km².
Capital not shown: its status is disputed.
Highest point: Grand Ross, 1,850 m (Wikidata)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Grand Ross: 1,850 m (its highest point)

Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Kerguelen Islands and Crozet Islands.

Land

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 68%, hills 23.1%, plains 8.9%.

Neighbours

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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