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French Southern & Antarctic Lands

Grande Glorieuse

The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands are a group of islands and rocks totaling 5 square kilometres. They are controlled by France as part of the in the , a French overseas territory, but are also claimed by , Madagascar and formerly by .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
  • Also known as: “Glorieuse”, “Ile Glorieuse”, “Île Glorieuse”, “ile Grande Glorieuse”, and “île Grande Glorieuse”

Grande Glorieuse

Latitude
-11.57939° or 11° 34′ 46″ south
Longitude
47.29783° or 47° 17′ 52″ east
Open location code
5HW9C7CX+64
Open­Street­Map ID
way 12472483
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
1024032
Wiki­data ID
Q3593084
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Satellite Map

Discover Grande Glorieuse from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Grande Glorieuse” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزر كلوريوسو”
  • Arabic: “كراند كلورييوس”
  • Asturian: “Gran Gloriosa”
  • Breton: “Grande Glorieuse”
  • Cebuano: “Île Glorieuse”
  • Croatian: “Grande Glorieuse”
  • Dutch: “île Grande Glorieuse”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Granda Glorioso”
  • French: “Grande Glorieuse”
  • French: “île Glorieuse”
  • French: “Île Glorieuse”
  • French: “Ile Grande Glorieuse”
  • French: “île Grande Glorieuse”
  • French: “Île grande glorieuse”
  • French: “Île Grande Glorieuse”
  • Kirghiz: “Глорьез”
  • Slovak: “Glorieuses”
  • Slovenian: “île Grande Glorieuse”
  • Spanish: “Gran Gloriosa”
  • Ukrainian: “Гран Глоріоз”
  • Ukrainian: “Гран Глоріоза”

Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Piste d’atterissage des Iles Glorieuses and Cimetière de Grande Glorieuse.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grande Glorieuse”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.