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Clipperton Island
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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. It was used as a base by John Clipperton, an English pirate. The French claimed it in 1858, the Americans held it for a time in the Spanish-American War, and Mexican troops occupied it in 1897. The conflict between France and Mexico was referred to the king of Italy for arbitration in 1908. The award was made (1931) in favor of France, and Mexico surrendered the island in 1932. The island is administered from French Polynesia.
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The preface to the Voyage is consumed by the account of rivalry and ill-will on the high seas between Shelvocke and Captain Clipperton of the Success.
Captain Cook's voyages and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Strongman, Luke / Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
At the beginning of the twentieth century he had sent a small contingent of soldiers to a place called Clipperton Island.
Chapters in the life of Laura Restrepo by Herrera, Adriana / Americas (English Edition)
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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