Although they cover just 16 square miles of land and have no permanent residents, the "Scattered Islands" represent "part of the unfinished business of decolonisation", said RFI. The islands are ...

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with ... is depicted as a group of scattered islands. The globe’s lone sentence ...

The Scattered Islands have never had any permanent inhabitants, with just some French military personnel staying there. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images Four small coral ...