{"id":30143,"date":"2025-02-15T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30143"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:50:44","slug":"amsterdam-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amsterdam-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Amsterdam Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<h2>About Amsterdam Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Referred to as <strong>Nouvelle Amsterdam or \u00cele Amsterdam<\/strong>, Amsterdam Island is a small <strong>French island territory <\/strong>that is situated in the <strong>southern Indian Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Along with the <strong>neighboring \u00cele Saint-Paul<\/strong>, Amsterdam Island is administered under the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.<\/li>\n<li>It is located roughly <strong>midway between Australia, Antarctica<\/strong>, <strong>Madagascar<\/strong>, the Australian external territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and <strong>British Indian Ocean Territory.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is approximately 3,200 km away from each of these territories.<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> elliptical-shaped volcanic <\/strong>Amsterdam Island covers an area of about 55 sq.km. and has a length of 10 km and a maximum width of 7 km.<\/li>\n<li>The island is <strong>relatively recent, <\/strong>having formed between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>The island <strong>consists of a potentially active stratovolcano,<\/strong> although there are no historical records of volcanic eruptions on the island.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human Presence: <\/strong>The island has <strong>no permanent population<\/strong> but hosts a small <strong>scientific research station called Martin-de-Vivi\u00e8s,<\/strong> which is manned by a rotating team of scientists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Amsterdam Island Flora &amp; Fauna<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>endemic Amsterdam albatross<\/strong> is one of the world\u2019s <strong>rarest species of avifauna,<\/strong> found only on Amsterdam Island.<\/li>\n<li>Amsterdam Island is the only French sub-Antartic isle that supports a <strong>native tree, Phylica nitida.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Amsterdam Island FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is Amsterdam Island located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Amsterdam Island (\u00cele Amsterdam) is a French island located in the southern Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who discovered Amsterdam Island?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Amsterdam Island was discovered in 1522 by Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Elcano, a Spanish explorer, during the first recorded circumnavigation of the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. How many people live on Amsterdam Island?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Amsterdam Island is uninhabited except for a small group of researchers and personnel stationed at Martin-de-Vivi\u00e8s research station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cew598rvxn7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam Island, a small French island territory, is located in the southern Indian Ocean, known for its remote location and unique ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}