19th century<\/span><\/p>\nIn Autumn 1833 the British ship Lady Munro was wrecked at the island and 21 survivors were picked up two weeks later by a sealing vessel.<\/p>\n
In January 1871 an attempt to settle the island was made by a party led by Heurtin, a French resident of R\u00e9union Island. After seven months there, their attempts to raise cattle and grow crops were unfruitful and they returned to R\u00e9union, abandoning the cattle on the island.<\/p>\n
The islands of \u00cele Amsterdam and \u00cele Saint-Paul were first claimed by Martin Dupeyrat for France in 1843. However, the governor of R\u00e9union refused to ratify the act of possession and France took formal control only in October 1892.<\/p>\n
20th century<\/span><\/p>\nThe islands were attached to Madagascar in 1924 and became a French colony. The first French base on Amsterdam was established in 1949, and was originally called Camp Heurtin. The Global Atmosphere Watch still maintains a presence on Amsterdam.
\nTerritorial claims<\/p>\n
Amsterdam island, along with Saint Paul Island, is considered by some Mauritian parties as a national territory. The question of Mauritian sovereignty over the two islands was raised in 2007 by the leader of the opposition, Paul Raymond Berenger. This new claim could be raised in discussions with France, along with a claim to Tromelin Island which has been officially maintained for a long time.<\/p>\n
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Geography<\/span><\/p>\nThe volcanic island is a potentially active volcano which last erupted in 1792. It has an area of 55 km2 (21 sq mi), measuring about 10 km (6.2 mi) on its longest side, and reaches as high as 867 m (2,844 ft) at the Mont de la Dives. The high central area of the island, at an elevation of over 500 metres (1,600 ft), containing its peaks and caldera, is known as the Plateau des Tourbi\u00e8res (in English the Plateau of Bogs)<\/em>. The cliffs that characterise the western coastline of the island, rising to over 700 metres (2,300 ft), are known as the Falaises d’Entrecasteaux after 18th century French navigator Bruni d’Entrecasteaux.<\/p>\nClimate<\/span><\/p>\nThe Amsterdam has a mild, oceanic climate, with a mean annual temperature of 13 \u00b0C (55.4 \u00b0F), rainfall of 1,100 mm (43.3 in), persistent westerly winds and high levels of humidity.<\/p>\n
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\u00cele Amsterdam (French pronunciation: \u200b[ilamst\u0259\u0281\u02c8dam], also known as Amsterdam Island, New Amsterdam, or Nouvelle Amsterdam, is an island named after the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It lies in the southern Indian Ocean. It is part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and, together with neighbouring \u00cele Saint-Paul 85 km (53 mi) to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[190,194,195,203,234],"class_list":["post-37139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ham-radio-news","tag-ham","tag-ham_radio","tag-ham-radio","tag-hamradio","tag-info","category-5","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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