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Clipperton Island

LC control no.sh 90000274
Geographic headingClipperton Island
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Geographic subdivision usageClipperton Island
Variant(s)Île Clipperton
Isla de la Passión
Passión, Isla de la
See alsoIslands of the Pacific
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Found inWork cat.: Arnaud de Guzmán, M.T. La tragedia de Clipperton, 1982.
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Rand McNally.
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Pre-AACR II Special geographic feature groupings file, Jan. 18, 1990.
The recent molluscan fauna of L'Île Clipperton (tropical Eastern Pacific), 2007.
GEOnet, Jan. 4, 2010 (Clipperton Island (BGN Conventional), L̂'Ile Clipperton (BGN Standard); 10⁰17ʹN 109⁰13ʹW; dependent political entity. Also lists an atoll at the same coordinates: Clipperton, Atoll (BGN Standard), Clipperton (Short), Clipperton (Variant), Clipperton Island (Variant), Île Clipperton (Variant), Isla de la Pasión (Variant), Pasión, Isla de la (Variant))
Wikipedia, Jan. 4, 2010 (Clipperton Island (French: Île de Clipperton or Île de la Passion) (Spanish: Isla de la Pasión) is a nine-square-kilometre (approx. 3.5 square mile) coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Central America, at 10⁰18ʹN 109⁰13ʹW . It has no permanent inhabitants. The island is an overseas possession of France under the direct authority of the French government, administered by the Minister of Overseas France)