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Clipperton Island

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Clipperton Island

Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, an overseas territory of France, south of Mexico and west of Panama; area 7 sq km/2.7 sq mi. The atoll is unpopulated. It takes its name from English pirate John Clipperton, who made the atoll his territory in 1705.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century he had sent a small contingent of soldiers to a place called Clipperton Island.
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32) Applies to the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean from the Franco-Belgian border to the Franco-Spanish border, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, French Guiana, Reunion, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Wallis and Futuna, Tromelin, Glorioso, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassad da India Islands, Clipperton Island, Mayotte, Guadaloupe and Martinique.
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