Île Amsterdam
Island in the southern Indian OceanÎle Amsterdam, also known as Amsterdam Island and New Amsterdam (Nouvelle-Amsterdam), is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean that together with neighbouring Île Saint-Paul 90 km to the south forms one of the five districts of the territory.
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AI Generated- 18 March 1522The island was sighted by Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián de Elcano during his circumnavigation of the world.
- 17 June 1633Dutch colonial governor Anthonie van Diemen sighted the island and named it Nieuw Amsterdam.
- December 1696The first recorded landing on the island was led by Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh.
