Remote Islands

Exploring the World’s Most Remote Islands

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  • Tromelin Island: fifteen years on the Isle of Sand

    Tromelin Island: fifteen years on the Isle of Sand

    From the sea, Tromelin Island shows almost nothing of itself: a pale strip of sand and low scrub, barely seven meters above the surf, with water some 4,000 meters deep on every side. Île Tromelin, as France calls it, lies alone in the western Indian Ocean, about 560 kilometers north of Réunion and roughly 450…

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