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Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-04-19): Tromelin Island (Île Tromelin) is a low, flat French Island in the Indian Ocean about 500 km (310 mi) north of Réunion and about 450 km (280 mi) east of Madagascar. Tromelin is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island. [...] Tromelin is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island despite its absence in the listing of the 8th article of the 1814 Paris Treaty. Indeed, the treaty does not specifically mention all the dependencies of Mauritius, which leads to uncertainty on the sovereignty of Tromelin, and the official text was the most clearly text in French. [...] It is a matter of dispute whether the building agreement transferred sovereignty of Tromelin from one to the other, and Mauritius claims the island as part of its territory, on the grounds that France did not retain its sovereignty over island in 1814, which was de facto part of the colony of Mauritius at the time of independence. Indeed, as early as 1959, even before independence, Mauritius informed the World Meteorological Organization that it considered Tromelin to be part of its territory. A co-management treaty was reached by France and Mauritius in 2010, but has not been ratified.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. [...] The islands had been administered as part of Mauritius from the 18th Century onwards. In 1965, shortly before Mauritian independence the UK separated them along with Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches in the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. [...] 2010 - Mauritius and France agree to jointly manage Tromelin, a tiny Indian Ocean island owned by France but claimed by Mauritius.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-26): Tromelin Island is a minor one of the islands of the Indian Ocean, approximately 800 km (500 miles) east of Madagascar and 800 km north of Réunion. It makes up one of the many Scattered islands of the Indian Ocean, which is one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Understand [edit]Tromelin Island is not open to tourism. It is uninhabited, and serves as a sea tortoise and seabird sanctuary. The only facility on the island is an important meteorological station which gathers data for forecasting cyclones and hurricanes. First explored by the French in 1776, the island came under the jurisdiction of Reunion in 1814. The island was discovered when the French ship Utile, which was carrying slaves at the time, hit the reefs of the island. The crew got on a floatable raft to make it to Madagascar, while they left 60 slaves on Tromelin Island. 15 years later in 1776, the chevalier de Tromelin (from whom the island takes its name), captain of the French warship La Dauphine, came upon the Island and rescued the slaves that were still alive — seven women and an eight-month-old child. Tromelin Island was occupied by France in 1954 while it was part of Mauritius and it is claimed by Mauritius. Terrain [edit]The terrain on Tromelin Island is sandy, flat, low and is likely volcanic. The island is also surrounded by coral reefs. The Island also has volcanic rock.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-04-24): Tromelin Island (/ˌtroʊmlɪn/[citation needed]; French: Île Tromelin, pronounced [il tʁɔmlɛ̃]), once called the Isle of Sand, is a low, flat island in the Indian Ocean about 500 km (310 mi; 270 nmi) north of Réunion and about 450 km (280 mi; 240 nmi) east of Madagascar. Tromelin is part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, the fifth district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island. [...] Tromelin is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island despite its absence in the listing of the 8th article of the 1814 Treaty of Paris.[19] Indeed, the treaty does not specifically mention all the dependencies of Mauritius, which leads to uncertainty on the sovereignty of Tromelin, and the official text was that written in French. During the British period of Mauritius, France administered the island as a dependency of the region of Réunion and built infrastructure without British protest. France and Mauritius have been negotiating for years in regard to the possible establishment of a condominium over the island. In 2010, Mauritius and France reached an agreement on the co-management of Tromelin, without prejudice to the sovereignty of Mauritius over Tromelin.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Tromelin Island, Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France Tromelin Island is a small, flat French island located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 500 kilometers north of Réunion and 450 kilometers east of Madagascar. Tromelin is managed as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but the island is claimed by Mauritius. Tromelin has scientific expedition facilities as well as a weather station. Both birds and green sea turtles use it as a breeding location.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-07-22): Tromelin Island is a tiny island 280 miles east of Madagascar. Surrounded by coral reefs, the island is hard to reach, except by fate. In 1722, the French ship Utine ("useful" in French) traveled from Mauritius to Madagascar carrying a few dozen sailors and about 150 slaves. [...] In 1776, Bernard Boudin de Tromelin, captain of the French warship La Dauphine, visited the island and rescued the survivors, which were then only seven women and an 8-month-old baby boy born in the island. Three of the survivors were a grandmother, a mother, and a child, and they were returned to Mauritius. [...] There were no other records to show what happened to the other survivors. However, Guerot belives that some of the survivors of Tromelin island may have merged into the community of freed slaves in Mauritius, where their descendants still live there to this day.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-04-25): Mauritius and Seychelles have often disputed over the Chagos Archipelago, which lies 1,287 kilometers northeast of Mauritius Island, for a long time. The Archipelago served as an official part of Mauritius as early as the 18th Century when the first French settlers settled in the Country. The United Kingdom on November 8, 1965, split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius alongside Seychelles islands of Aldabra, Desroches, and Farquhar to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. Chagossians and the country of Mauritius have since engaged in activism and campaigns to have the archipelago returned to Mauritius since Chagos is an integral territory of Mauritius under the Mauritian Law and International Law. Mauritius also disputes with France over Tromelin Island which lies around 430 kilometers northeast of Mauritius.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-12-21): The Republic of Mauritius is situated in the Southwestern part of the Indian Ocean with a total land area of 2040 km2. The Republic primarily consists of 2 main islands: Mauritius (1865 km2) and Rodrigues (109km2). Its ocean territory extends to a group of outer islands, namely Saint Brandon, Agalega, the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, and Tromelin (Mauritius Constitution, 1968; Republic of Mauritius, 2013). (According to an advisory opinion published in February 2019 on the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, the International Court of Justice has urged the United Kingdom to " end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible.") [...] The main island, Mauritius, is situated 800 km east of Madagascar and forms part of the volcanic chain of Mascarene Islands. It has a land area of 2040 km2. Mauritius claims an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 2.3 million square kilometres. An additional expanse of extended continental shelf area of approximately 400,000 km2 is co-managed with the Seychelles, following a joint submission made by the two countries to the United Nations in 2011.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Based on the ICJ advisory opinion, Mauritius took the Maldives – with whom it shares a border – to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to confirm Mauritius’ maritime borders. In doing so, the tribunal ruled that the UK’s administration over the Chagos Islands was unlawful and that they were Mauritian territory. This, too, failed to resolve the issue. [...] For the UK, it ensures continued strategic presence through its joint military base with the US. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said it would also ‘shut down any possibility of the Indian Ocean being used as a dangerous illegal migration route to the UK.’ In recent years, a few migrants have arrived on the Chagos Islands, with some seeking asylum in the UK. Once they become Mauritian territory, Mauritius will be responsible for future arrivals. [...] France, similarly, has 16 overseas territories, including Mayotte, Reunion, Tromelin Island, and small islands in the Indian Ocean neighbouring Africa. The US has 14. Other countries maintaining overseas territories include Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, Spain, and China. Could the resolution of the Chagos Islands issue set a precedent for other similar territories?
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-12-30): Many people who visit Mauritius are unaware that it is just one of the islands in the republic. Nearly 500 km north east of the island is a long thin archipelago called St Brandon, where around 60 fishermen live. Over a thousand kilometres north are two sausage shaped islands collectively known as Agaléga, where about 300 people live cultivating coconuts and fishing in a narrow lagoon. It has an airstrip and rudimentary social institutions, but no running water and secondary education has to occur off island. A third island, Tromelin, is also claimed by Mauritius, which is little more than an airstrip on a coral platform, barely 1500 m long. As with many small rocks in the ocean, the claims on its possession are more about the rights that gives countries over the sea and what is under it. No wonder both the French and the Seychelles also claim Tromelin given it has no other land for 200km around, and so gives a nation an enormous Exclusive Economic Zone or EEZ. All that fuss just for a colony of booby birds. Mauritius even lays a claim to Diego Garcia – a contentious part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2015-10-02): He said that reform of the United Nations would make it more responsive to the needs of all Member States. Comprehensive reform of the Security Council also was needed, and Africa’s legitimate aspiration for permanent representation should not be denied. Small island developing States, which represented more than a quarter of United Nations membership, deserved representation on the Council; Mauritius also supported India’s aspiration for a permanent seat. It was time to resolve the situation that prevented Mauritius from effectively exercising its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and the Island of Tromelin, which formed an integral part of Mauritius territory. That position had been supported by decisions of the Arbitral Tribunal against the United Kingdom, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. He also urged the United States Government, which was currently using Diego Garcia for defence purposes, to talk with Mauritius about the long-term interest of his country regarding the Chagos Archipelago. His Government was committed to pursue all efforts in line with international law for the effective exercise by Mauritius of its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, including further recourse to judicial or arbitral bodies.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2012-11-07): Tromelin Island is a small dot of land — about a third of a square mile, or .8 square kilometers — situated about 220 miles east of Madagascar. (It’s where the red flagged "A" is in the map above.) It is mostly sand; its original name was Ile de Sables, or "island of sand." It is administered by the French government and claimed by the French as their territory, although both Madagascar and the Seychelles also lay claim to it. No one lives on the island, and getting there is tricky — it is surrounded by coral reefs, making it difficult at best for ships to drop anchor there. Which is a lesson that a slave ship, back in 1761, learned the hard way.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-02-21): While French territories in the Indo-Pacific are mostly stable, their environment is not. France has to contend with territorial disputes (Comoros on Mayotte, Mauritius on the island of Tromelin and Vanuatu on the islands of Matthews and Hunter), as well as China’s continuous trafficking and military provocations.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): 4. Both France and Republic of Mauritius include the disputed Tromelin Island and its associated EEZ in their territorial claim. [...] 11. All totals are distorted by the disputed claims over Mayotte and Tromelin (and Chagos) and cannot be considered definitive.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of Mauritius (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-12-11): 11 December (Mauritius ) within release Territorial Claims of Mauritius : Tromelin Island goes into circulation Stamp Territorial Claims of Mauritius : Tromelin Island face value 25 Mauritian rupee [...] Stamp Territorial Claims of Mauritius : Tromelin Island it reflects the thematic directions:
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-18): Tromelin Island (/ˌtroʊmlɪn/[citation needed]; French: Île Tromelin, pronounced [il tʁɔmlɛ̃]), once called the Isle of Sand, is a low, flat island in the Indian Ocean about 500 km (310 mi; 270 nmi) north of Réunion and about 450 km (280 mi; 240 nmi) east of Madagascar. Tromelin is part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, the fifth district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island. [...] Sovereignty claims [edit]Tromelin is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island despite its absence in the listing of the 8th article of the 1814 Treaty of Paris.[19] Indeed, the treaty does not specifically mention all the dependencies of Mauritius, which leads to uncertainty on the sovereignty of Tromelin, and the official text was that written in French. During the British period of Mauritius, France administered the island as a dependency of the region of Réunion and built infrastructure without British protest. France and Mauritius have been negotiating for years in regard to the possible establishment of a condominium over the island. In 2010, Mauritius and France reached an agreement on the co-management of Tromelin, without prejudice to the sovereignty of Mauritius over Tromelin.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Tromelin Island, Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France Tromelin Island is a small, flat French island located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 500 kilometers north of Réunion and 450 kilometers east of Madagascar. Tromelin is managed as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French Overseas Territory, but the island is claimed by Mauritius. Tromelin has scientific expedition facilities as well as a weather station. Both birds and green sea turtles use it as a breeding location.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-07-22): Tromelin Island is a tiny island 280 miles east of Madagascar. Surrounded by coral reefs, the island is hard to reach, except by fate. In 1722, the French ship Utine ("useful" in French) traveled from Mauritius to Madagascar carrying a few dozen sailors and about 150 slaves. [...] In 1776, Bernard Boudin de Tromelin, captain of the French warship La Dauphine, visited the island and rescued the survivors, which were then only seven women and an 8-month-old baby boy born in the island. Three of the survivors were a grandmother, a mother, and a child, and they were returned to Mauritius. [...] There were no other records to show what happened to the other survivors. However, Guerot belives that some of the survivors of Tromelin island may have merged into the community of freed slaves in Mauritius, where their descendants still live there to this day.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-04-16): Located approximately 500 kilometers north of Mauritius, Tromelin, a French Overseas Territory, unveils a uniquely solitary experience, inviting explorers to immerse themselves in an untouched sanctuary where nature’s subtle grandeur unfolds in every gentle breeze and horizon kissed by the setting sun. [...] Tromelin Island is not a destination for those seeking luxury resorts, eclectic markets, or cultural immersion. It is a retreat for the soul that seeks to commune with nature in its purest, most unadulterated form, to find peace amidst the soft sands and gentle waves, and to bask in the boundless openness where sky and sea become one. [...] In the serene simplicity of Tromelin Island, discover an elusive paradise where every moment is a gentle caress of peaceful existence, enveloped by the eternal embrace of the sea and sky.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-07-09): In July of 1761, a French ship foundered near the island of Tromelin, east of Madagascar. It carried an illicit cargo of slaves. [...] Unfortunately for them, after the ship resumed its course eastwards, it was caught in a storm and ran aground on the submerged coral reef that breaks the surface as the island of Tromelin. [...] What their fates were after that, the records do not say, although Guérout has searched the in France and Mauritius. He believes that the two groups of known survivors from Tromelin Island must have merged into the community of freed slaves in Mauritius, and their descendants are probably living there to this day.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Tromelin Island is a low, flat, island in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres north of Réunion, and about 450 kilometres east of Madagascar. Tromelin is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, a French overseas territory; however, Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island, on grounds of its absence in the listing of the 8th article of the French version of the 1814 Paris Treaty. France and Mauritius have been negotiating for years in regard to the possible establishment of a condominium over the island.Tromelin has facilities for scientific expeditions and a weather station. It is a nesting site for birds and green sea turtles. Download Download See moreWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromelin_Island
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-02-25): Tromelin is a small coral reef island located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 440 km East of Madagascar and 580 km North of La Réunion in the Indian ocean. The low, flat, sandy island is a part of French overseas territory. It is the site of a meteorological station important in forecasting Indian Ocean cyclones. A wildlife sanctuary, Tromelin is home to sea turtles and many seabirds but is uninhabited except for visiting scientists. Tromelin has facilities for scientific expeditions and a weather station. It is a nesting site for birds and green sea turtles. See Tromelin island google Maps. Tromelin (Iles Eparses) has been administered on behalf of the French state by the senior administrator of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF- Les Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises), based in Reunion. The Iles Eparses had previously been under the administration of the prefect of Reunion since the independence of Madagascar in 1960. Since 1952, it has been the site of a French meteorological station. But back in 1761, the island was just an uncharted speck in the Indian Ocean. [...] Tromelin Island is an ideal place to monitor weather, especially cyclones, bound for Madagascar. In 1954, French authorities built a weather station in Tromelin and it is still in operation today and consists of a few buildings.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-09-23): Tromelin Island is a small island located in the Indian Ocean. It lies about 450 kms to the east of Madagascar and is sometimes considered to be a part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean. It is an overseas territory belonging to France and covers an area of 1 sq km. [...] Tromelin Island has a low lying flat relief and is sandy in nature. The presence of volcanic rocks has led scientists to conclude that it may be a part of a submerged volcanic seamount. The highest point on the island rises to 7 meters. The entire island is covered by scattered bushy vegetation. The island is surrounded by coral reefs. The major importance of the Tromelin Island lies in the fact that it serves as a sanctuary and breeding ground for the sea turtles. It is also an important sanctuary for sea birds, especially for the Masked Boobies and the Red-footed Boobies. The island has been declared to be an Important Bird Area (IBA) in view of the ecological importance of the bird population here.
Claim: Tromelin Island is a territory of France (Tromelin Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2014-11-26): Tromelin Island, off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean is little more than a speck of sand covered in low-lying scrub plants, but miraculously, a group of more than 60 enslaved people were able to survive (some of them at least) for over 15 years after being shipwrecked and left for dead. [...] The tragic events of Tromelin Island are not remembered by any marker, and the remains of the ship have all but been swept away by the tides, but the remains of the castaways’ shelters and artifacts can still be found on the island. The only other things that share the sandy real estate are a short landing strip and a weather station.