They include Bassas da India, Europa, Juan de Nova, Tromelin and the Glorioso Islands. Aside from a handful of French soldiers posted to military installations, they are uninhabited. But their value ...

The island is a nature reserve, and its waters are protected. Like its neighbor, Bassas da India, 70-odd miles to the northwest, it is part of the Scattered Islands, five specks of land that ring ...

The Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands) – Tromelin, Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India – are littered ... and military staff. Each island gives France control over 200 ...

This detailed photograph of the Bassas da India, an uninhabited atoll in the Indian Ocean (between the Mozambique coast of Africa and the island of Madagascar) has an almost surreal quality due to ...

The Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands) - Tromelin, Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India - are littered ... and military staff. Each island gives France control over 200 nautical ...