Tromelin Island
Tromelin Island is a minor one of the islands of the Indian Ocean, approximately 800 km east of Madagascar and 800 km north of Réunion. It makes up one of the many Scattered islands of the Indian Ocean, which is one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Zou24470, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
- Also known as: “Ile de Sable”, “Sandy Island”, “Trom island”, and “Tromelin”
Tromelin Island
- Categories: raised coral atoll, disputed territory, and locality
- Location: East African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-15.8913° or 15° 53′ 29″ southLongitude of center
54.523° or 54° 31′ 23″ eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 4078303461OpenStreetMap feature
natural=atollOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tromelin Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة تروملين”
- Asturian: “Tromelin”
- Azerbaijani: “Tromelin adası”
- Basque: “Tromelin uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Трамлен”
- Belarusian: “Трамлен”
- Bosnian: “Ostrvo Tromelin”
- Breton: “Enez Tromelin”
- Catalan: “illa de Tromelin”
- Catalan: “Illa de Tromelin”
- Catalan: “Tromelin”
- Cebuano: “Île Tromelin”
- Chinese: “特罗姆兰岛”
- Chinese: “特罗姆林岛”
- Chinese: “特羅姆蘭島”
- Croatian: “Otok Tromelin”
- Croatian: “Tromelin”
- Czech: “Tromelin”
- Dutch: “Tromelin”
- Esperanto: “Tromelino”
- Estonian: “Tromelin”
- Estonian: “Tromelini saar”
- Finnish: “Tromelin”
- Finnish: “Tromelinin saari”
- French: “Île de Sable”
- French: “Ile Tromelin”
- French: “île Tromelin”
- French: “Île Tromelin”
- French: “Tromelin”
- Galician: “Illa Tromelin”
- Galician: “Tromelin”
- Georgian: “ტრომელინი”
- German: “Tromelin-Insel”
- German: “Tromelin”
- Greek: “Νήσος Τρομελέν”
- Greek: “Τρομελέν Νήσος”
- Greek: “Τρομελίν Νήσος”
- Greek: “Τρομελίν”
- Hindi: “ट्रोमेलिन द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Tromelin-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Tromelin”
- Italian: “Isola Tromelin”
- Italian: “Tromelin”
- Japanese: “トロメリン島”
- Korean: “트로믈랭섬”
- Latvian: “Tromlēna”
- Ligurian: “Isoa Tromelin”
- Macedonian: “Тромелин”
- Macedonian: “Тромлен”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Tromelin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tromelin Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tromelinøya”
- Norwegian: “Tromelinøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa Tromelin”
- Persian: “جزیره ترومیلن”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ ترومیلن”
- Polish: “Tromelin”
- Polish: “Wyspa Tromelin”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Tromelin”
- Portuguese: “Tromelin”
- Romanian: “Insula Tromelin”
- Russian: “Остров Тромлен”
- Russian: “Тромелин”
- Russian: “Тромлен остров”
- Russian: “Тромлен”
- Scots: “Tromelin Island”
- Serbian: “Тромелин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrvo Tromlen”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Tromelin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tromelin”
- Slovak: “Tromelin”
- Slovenian: “Tromelin”
- Spanish: “Isla de Sable”
- Spanish: “Isla Tromelin”
- Spanish: “Tromelin”
- Swedish: “Tromelin”
- Swedish: “Tromelinön”
- Turkish: “Tromelin Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Тромлен”
- Ukrainian: “Тромлен”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ ٹروملين”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Tromelin”
- Vietnamese: “Tromelin”
- Yue Chinese: “特羅姆蘭島”
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