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France’s ability to act as a resident maritime power in the Southwest Indian Ocean rests on a scattered constellation of tiny territories known in French as the Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands). These five islets—Tromelin in the open Indian Ocean and, in the Mozambique Channel, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova, Bassas da India and Europa—add only 43 km²
