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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Eparses Islands

Antje von Ungern-Sternberg

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
November 2009

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 December 2023

Subject(s):
Territory, acquisition and transfer — Sovereignty — Islands and artificial islands — Jurisdiction of states, territoriality principle — States, independence

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The Eparses Islands are five unpopulated West Indian Ocean islands administered and claimed by France, whose territorial sovereignty has been disputed since decolonization. (Decolonization: French Territories) Juan de Nova (5 square kilometres), Europa (30 square kilometres), Bassas da India (〈 1 square kilometre), and the Glorieuses (6 square kilometres), located in the Mozambique Channel west of Madagascar and east of Mozambique, are also claimed by Madagascar. The reef of Tromelin (1 square kilometre), situated east of Madagascar and north of Mauritius and...
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