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	Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (French: Îles Éparses or Îles éparses de l'océan indien) comprise four small coral islands and an atoll in the Indian Ocean.
		The island is surrounded by coral beaches and a fringing reef and encloses a mangrove lagoon of around 9 km².
		The island is named after João da Nova, a Galician admiral in the service of Portugal who came across the island in 1501.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Europa_Island (1263 words)

	Clipperton Island - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Clipperton Island (locally known as Île Clipperton and sometimes Île de la Passion) is an uninhabited seven-square-kilometer coral atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,300 km southwest of Mexico, at.
		Clipperton Island was originally discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, but was later named after John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century and who used the island as a base for his raids on shipping.
		Clipperton is often used by the French as a self-deprecating ironic reference to the importance of the French oversea possessions.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Clipperton_Island (1595 words)

	Clipperton Island on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		CLIPPERTON ISLAND [Clipperton Island] uninhabited atoll, c.2 sq mi (5.2 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean, c.800 mi (1,290 km) SW of Mexico.
		Commented checklist of the polychaetes (Annelida: polychaeta) from areas adjacent to islands of the Mexican Pacific and Gulf of California.
		The Spratly Islands dispute and the law of the sea.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Clippert.asp (406 words)

	Clipperton Island
		Clipperton Island was originally discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, but was later named after John Clipperton, an English pirate who led a mutiny against William Dampier in 1704.
		When Clipperton was finally declared as a French possession, the lighthouse was rebuilt and the French settled a military outpost on the island.
		In the late 1930's, Clipperton was visited twice by President Franklin D. Roosevelt who wanted it to become an American possession for use as a trans-pacific air base, and in 1944 he ordered the navy to occupy the island in one of the most secret US operations of WW II.
	www.molossia.org /clipperton.html (888 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The island is surrounded by a reef flat exposed at low tide.
		It has been recommended that the island be protected as a natural laboratory for scientific studies.
		Clipperton is one of the least altered island systems in the Pacific.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wetlands/clip_isl.htm (539 words)

	Expedition Pursues Secrets of Clipperton Island
		Clipperton is included on the list of protected areas of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), which classifies it as ''one of the least altered island systems in the Pacific Ocean,'' and ''the fauna and flora consist of an unusual assemblage including both Panamic (American) and Indo-Pacific forms.''
		In the case of Clipperton Island, after the volcano ended its active phase it began to sink, and its crater became a lagoon, protected from the sea and from external biological influences.
		Clipperton ''is a geo-chemical laboratory unique in the world,'' because the water in its lagoon lacks oxygen deeper than eight meters, and contains high proportions of sulfuric acid, making it a ''natural melting pot where phosphates are formed, and an ideal environment for the emergence of new organisms,'' Etienne explained.
	www.tierramerica.net /2004/1127/iarticulo.shtml (862 words)

	Europa 2003 - Clipperton DX Club - CDXC
		Europa Island is the largest of the Scattered French Islands of the Indian Ocean, with a land area of 30 km².
		It is a desert island situated in the Mozambique Channel, about 250 km West by North West of Toliara (Madagascar), half way between the East Coast of Africa and the West Coast of Madagascar.
		Europa Island was already known at the time of the Compagnie des Indes and of the first French settlers in Madagascar.
	europa2003.free.fr /europa_2003-e.htm (1016 words)

	ENVIRONMENT: Expedition Pursues Secrets of Clipperton Island
		Clipperton is included on the list of protected areas of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which classifies it as ''one of the least altered island systems in the Pacific Ocean,'' and ''the fauna and flora consist of an unusual assemblage including both Panamic (American) and Indo-Pacific forms.''
		Etienne suspects that drug traffickers use the island as a stopover, utilising a precarious landing strip that was built during the Second World War.
		Clipperton ''is a geo-chemical laboratory unique in the world,'' because the water in its lagoon lacks oxygen deeper than eight meters, and contains high proportions of sulphuric acid, making it a ''natural melting pot where phosphates are formed, and an ideal environment for the emergence of new organisms,'' Etienne explained.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=26521 (951 words)

	Island Castaway Describes His Self-Imposed Exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Summary For 41 days, filmmaker Lance Milbrand lived on Clipperton Island, a Pacific atoll 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) from landfall, sharing the desert isle with thousands of seabirds, land crabs, rats, and an army of lost toys.
		In 1994, Lance Milbrand traveled to Clipperton Island, a coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico, on a scientific expedition.
		Milbrand returned to the remote island in April of 2003 to shoot his film, funded in part with a grant from the National Geographic Expeditions Council.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/08/0827_030829_castaway.html (723 words)

	Clipperton Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The small island, one of Japan's most scenic locations, is 19 miles (31 km) in circumference and occupies an area of 12 square miles (31 square km).
		Islands are found in oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers.
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9024409?tocId=9024409 (770 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands (NT0705) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That’s because the island is a coral atoll that’s sitting atop the rim of an eroding and slowly receding volcano.
		The dry land of Clipperton Island is covered with grassy scrub, algae, and lichens.
		Clipperton Island is the only atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0705.html (341 words)

	Information on Clipperton Island
		State of Coral Reefs in Clipperton Island Status report by the French Coral Reef Initiative.
		Dominion of Melchizedek claims Clipperton Island as a possession (!)
		The Captaincy of Clipperton Island is claimed by the Republic of Molossia (!)
	www.connectedglobe.com /millennium/ip.html (261 words)

	ARRLWeb: FO0AAA is QRV from Clipperton Island
		Even under the best of conditions, landing on the island is considered tricky and potentially dangerous because of the normally high surf conditions.
		Clipperton Island, a French possession, is located some 1600 miles south-southeast of San Diego, California, and about the same distance west of Nicaragua.
		The Clipperton team was equipped to have three CW, three SSB and one full-time RTTY position on the air at all times.
	www.arrl.org /news/stories/2000/03/02/1 (511 words)

	Clipperton Island
		Clipperton Island, uninhabited atoll, c.2 sq mi (5.2 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean, c.800 mi (1,290 km) SW of Mexico.
		Atlas: Clipperton Island - Facts on Clipperton Island: flags, maps, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations.
		Lost Islands of the World - Traveler's guide to deserted islands for when you really, really want to be alone by Borgna Brunner...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0812590.html (304 words)

	Kinkora, a brief history of a sailing ship wrecked at Clipperton Island.
		She was wrecked soon after on Clipperton Island, a coral atoll about 700 nm SW of Mexico.
		All the boats had been smashed, excepting the one used by him, and the Captain and remainder of the crew were on the island with no means of leaving it.
		The First Officer reported that when he left Clipperton Island there was sufficient food to last the remaining twenty men about four months.
	www.mightyseas.co.uk /marhist/maryport/kinkora.htm (631 words)

	Flag Of Clipperton Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /flags_of_the_world/flag_of_clipperton_island.shtml (266 words)

	UTARC Clipperton DX Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clipperton Island is administered by the government of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Mexico, or France?
		A famous treaty concerning Clipperton Island was signed in 1856.
		Was it the Treaty of Clipperton, the Treaty of Guadaloupe-Sanchez-y-Rodriguez, the Treaty of Guano, the Treaty of Saltpeter, or the Freshwater Commerce Treaty?
	n5xu.ae.utexas.edu /news/mar2000/node6.html (258 words)

	Icom America - Amateur Radios - Icom Sponsored DXpeditions - Clipperton Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clipperton Island was the first major Icom sponsored DX'pedition of 2000.
		The conditions on Clipperton Island were a test for man and machine alike.
		Icom provided six IC-756PROs for the event, and each unit was exposed to extreme heat, humidity, salt water, sand and literally tons and tons of guano (bird droppings).
	www.icomamerica.com /amateur/dxpedition/clipperton (335 words)

	FO0AAA Clipperton Island Video - Viewer's Comments & Review
		Yet, when the DXpedition left the island and Clipperton eventually disappeared from site, there must have been a greater feeling of mystery, to wonder who would be visiting next.
		This video "FO0AAA Clipperton Island 2000" is one to place on the bookshelf next to "PJ9W the Spirit of Victory" and "ZL9CI." Of course, you will want to place it in your VCR to give it a good spin.
		This is both educational from the island point of view, as well as an introduction to non-hams to what the hobby is all about.
	www.dxvideos.com /fo0aaareviews.htm (1021 words)

	South Pacific Clipperton Island
		Clipperton is a circular coral atoll of 2 square miles, completely enclosing its lagoon.
		Temperatures are tropical and the vegetation includes scrub, wild tobacco, and some coconut groves.
		Clipperton Island is the only coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific and is one of the least disturbed island systems in the Pacific as a whole.
	www.island-search.com /browse.php?cat=183 (113 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Clipperton Island
		This isolated island was named for John CLIPPERTON, a pirate who made it his hideout early in the 18th century.
		Annexed by France in 1855, it was seized by Mexico in 1897.
		Arbitration eventually awarded the island to France, which took possession in 1935.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/wofact2004/geos/ip.html (184 words)

	Clipperton Island Pictures and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By 1917, most of the men had died and only the ligthhouse keeper was living along with 15 women on the island.
		In 1930, the Vatican gave the rights to the King of Italy, Vikor Emanuel II, who declared one year later that Clipperton was a part of France.
		When Clipperton was finally declared as a French posession, the lighthouse was rebuilt and the French settled a military outpost on the island.
	www.qsl.net /clipperton2000/history.html (665 words)

	Amature Radio, Clipperton Island,Ham Radio, Robert Denniston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Working contacts over long distances by voice or morse code is called DXing which has brought numerous small groups of hams to Clipperton Island every few years since the mid 1950's.
		Dentron used to manufacture for DXing a high power final amplifier called the Clipperton L and an antenna tuning unit called the clipperton T also a 2 meter rig the Clipperton V. Later they produced the Clipperton QRO amp near the end of their existence.
		Clipperton V, 1000 watts, 10 - 160 meters.
	www.clipperton.org /ham_radio.htm (206 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Clipperton Island -- Feb. 16, 1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So obscure, so ignominiously in the shadow of Dictator Benito Mussolini, is bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele III that news last week that he had actually done something important came to most Italians as a pleasant shock.
		His Majesty, after deliberating off and on for 22 years, finally handed down his decision as arbiter between France and Mexico in the forgotten matter of minute Clipperton Island, 700 miles off the Mexican shore, annexed by France in 1857, seized by Mexican Dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1897.
		When a boat from Mexico finally put in at Clipperton Island only one man was found alive.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,741068,00.html (234 words)

	COCONUT PLACES: Clipperton Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the 2002 World Factbook, things look pretty bleak at Clipperton Island, located in the Pacific southwest of Mexico.
		Here is a page about a 30 day cruise Richard Hermann made to Clipperton in 1994.
		Here's a link to their Things to do in Clipperton Island page.
	www.coconut.com /places/clipp.html (136 words)

	Clipperton Island / ip.html
		Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of Clipperton Atoll
		Clipperton Atoll, the Lonely Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
		Clipperton Island: Blue Lagoon and Pirate's Lair (Fact Monster)
	www.meatnpotatoes.com /nations/ip.html (59 words)

	Clipperton Island Pictures - Exploitz.com: Stock Photos, Maps, Hostels
		Clipperton Island pictures - Exploitz.com: Fee-based or FREE stock photos (depending on use and the pictures)
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		Perfect for the budget traveler, this is a list of Clipperton Island's hostels and hostel directories.
	www.exploitz.com /pages/regions/oceania/clippertonisland/index.shtml (279 words)

	clipperton island flag and description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The island is a French possession, and therefore uses the flag of France.
		The French national flag - the tricolore - consists of three vertical bands of equal width, displaying the country's national colors: blue, white and red.
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	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/flags/countrys/assorted/clipper.htm (240 words)

	Shipping to Clipperton Island
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	www.homeshipping.com /shipping-to/Clipperton-Island.asp (98 words)

	Clipperton Island Information and Online Map - Map Town Ltd.
		Clipperton Island Information and Online Map - Map Town Ltd.
		Flag description: the flag of France is used
		Economy - overview: Although 115 species of fish have been identified in the territorial waters of Clipperton Island, the only economic activity is tuna fishing.
	www.maptown.com /geos/clippertonisland.html (134 words)

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