Port-aux-Français
Port-aux-Français is the main settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, and French Southern and Antarctic Lands, in the south Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 100 residents
- Description: research station in Kerguelen, French Southern and Antarctic Territories
- Address: Îles Kerguelen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Notre-Dame des Vents.
Notre-Dame des Vents
Church
Photo: Adrideb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notre-Dame des Vents is a Roman Catholic church located in Port-aux-Français, the capital settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the south Indian Ocean.
Port-aux-Français
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kerguelen
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-49.34976° or 49° 20′ 59″ southLongitude
70.21996° or 70° 13′ 12″ eastPopulation
100Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)United Nations Location Code
TF PFROpen location code
4J2GM629+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 416710537OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Port-aux-Français” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Port-aux-Français”
- Arabic: “بورت أو فرانسيه”
- Breton: “Port-aux-Français”
- Catalan: “Port-aux-Français”
- Chinese: “法兰西港”
- Chinese: “法蘭西港”
- Czech: “Port aux Français”
- Czech: “Port-aux-Français”
- Dutch: “Port-aux-Francais”
- Dutch: “Port-aux-Français”
- Finnish: “Port-aux-Français”
- French: “Port-aux-Francais”
- French: “Port-aux-Français”
- Georgian: “პორტ-ო-ფრანსე”
- German: “Port-aux-Francais”
- German: “Port-aux-Français”
- Haitian: “Port-aux-Français”
- Hebrew: “פורט-או-פרנסה”
- Hungarian: “Port-aux-Français”
- Indonesian: “Port-aux-Français”
- Irish: “Port-aux-Français”
- Italian: “Port-aux-Français”
- Japanese: “ポルトーフランセ”
- Korean: “포르토프랑세”
- Korean: “포르토프랑셰”
- Latvian: “Portofransē”
- Lithuanian: “Port o Fransė”
- Lithuanian: “Port-aux-Français”
- Macedonian: “Порт о Франсе”
- Macedonian: “Порт-о-Франсе”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Port-aux-Français”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port-aux-Français”
- Ossetian: “Порт-о-Франс”
- Ossetian: “Порт-о-Франсэ”
- Polish: “Port-aux-Français”
- Portuguese: “Port aux Français”
- Portuguese: “Port-aux-Français”
- Portuguese: “Porto dos Franceses”
- Russian: “Порт-о-Франс”
- Russian: “Порт-о-Франсе”
- Russian: “Порт-о-Франсэ”
- Spanish: “Port aux Francais”
- Spanish: “Port aux Français”
- Spanish: “Port aux-Francais”
- Spanish: “Port aux-Français”
- Spanish: “Port-aux-Francais”
- Spanish: “Port-aux-Français”
- Spanish: “Puerto de los Franceses”
- Swedish: “Port-aux-Français”
- Thai: “ปอโรฟร็องแซ”
- Turkish: “Port-aux-Français”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-о-Франсе”
- Waray (Philippines): “Port-aux-Français”
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