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The French Riviera, known in French as the Côte d'Azur ( IPA: [kot dazyʁ]; Provençal: Còsta d'Azur, IPA: [ˈkwɔstɔ daˈzyʀ]; lit. ' Azure Coast' ), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is considered to be the coastal area of the Alpes-Maritimes department, extending from ...
For the French colonies in South America, see France Antarctique. Adélie Land ( French: Terre Adélie [tɛʁ adeli]) or Adélie Coast [3] is a claimed territory of France located on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a portion of the Southern Ocean coastline all the way inland to the South Pole.
Southern Thule. 59°42′S. Chile. Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands. Cape Froward (mainland) 56°32′S. 53°53′S. Argentina. Southernmost point of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands [6] ( French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) is an overseas territory ( French: Territoire d'outre-mer or TOM) of France. It consists of: Adélie Land ( Terre Adélie ), the French claim on the continent of Antarctica. Crozet Islands ( Îles Crozet ), a group in the southern Indian ...
Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km 2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).
New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, [5] and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
The Kerguelen Islands (/ k ər ˈ ɡ eɪ l ə n / or / ˈ k ɜːr ɡ əl ə n /; [2] in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel Kerguelen, [3] pronounced [kɛʁɡelɛn]), also known as the Desolation Islands (Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous ...
The Geographic South Pole is marked by the stake on the right NASA image showing Antarctica and the South Pole in 2005. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.