Île de la Possession
Île de la Possession, or Possession Island, formerly Île de la Prise de Possession, is part of the Subantarctic Crozet Archipelago. Administratively, it is part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Island
- …has 60 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 127 metres (417 feet)
- Description: island in the Crozet archipelago
- Also known as“Île de la Possession (Crozet)”“Île du Roi Charles”“Île Possession”“Possession Island”“Prise de Possession Island”
Île de la Possession
- Category: landform
- Location: Crozet Islands
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Latitude
-46.4023° or 46° 24′ 8″ south
Longitude
51.76145° or 51° 45′ 41″ east
Open location code
4H5HHQX6+3H
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Spanish—“Île de la Possession” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Île de la Possession (Crozet)”
- Afrikaans: “Île de la Possession”
- Asturian: “Islla de la Posesión”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Іль-дэ-ла-Пасесьён”
- Belarusian: “Іль-дэ-ла-Пасесьён”
- Catalan: “illa de la Possessió”
- Cebuano: “Île de la Possession”
- Chinese: “波塞申島”
- Croatian: “Île de la Possession”
- Czech: “Île de la Possession”
- Dutch: “Île de la Possession”
- Esperanto: “Posedinsulo”
- French: “Ile de la Possession”
- French: “île de la Possession”
- French: “Île de la possession”
- French: “Île de la Possession”
- Galician: “Île de la Possession”
- Galician: “Illa da Posesión”
- German: “Ile de la Possession”
- German: “Île de la Possession”
- German: “Ile de la Prise de Possession”
- German: “Île de la Prise de Possession”
- German: “Pic du Mascarin”
- Hebrew: “אי הבעלות”
- Italian: “Île de la Possession”
- Japanese: “ポセッション島”
- Latvian: “Posesiona”
- Macedonian: “Посесион (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Посесион”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île de la Possession”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de la Possession”
- Russian: “Поссесьон”
- Slovak: “Île de la Possession”
- Spanish: “Ile de la Possession (Crozet)”
- Spanish: “Ile de la Possession”
- Spanish: “Île de la Possession”
- Spanish: “Ile de la Prise de la Possession”
- Spanish: “Île de la Prise de la Possession”
- Spanish: “Isla de la Posesión”
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