Tag: archipelago
Two earthquakes of magnitude greater than 5 shake the archipelago
A strange wake-up call for Guadeloupeans. Two earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 on the Richter scale occurred during the night from Friday to Saturday in Guadeloupe, according to…
Svalbard Archipelago: 20 meters into the depth: Kayak professional dares record jump from glacier waterfall
In the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, extreme kayak athlete Aniol Sarrasolses plunged himself 20 meters into the depths. To reach the remote glacier, the team had to hike miles through the…
“Eau rescue”, a video game to raise awareness about the water crisis in the archipelago
Did you know that in certain departments in France, water does not flow into the tap every day? This has been the case in Guadeloupe for several years, where residents…
Joe Biden expected on the archipelago this Monday by a bereaved and bitter population
Joe Biden will have to deploy all the empathy of which he is capable on Monday during his trip to the island of Maui in Hawaii, bereaved by catastrophic fires…
5,000 hectares destroyed in the Spanish archipelago of the Canaries, firefighters helped by the drop in temperatures
The evacuated town of Tijarafe, on the island of La Palma, in the Canary archipelago, Spain, Saturday July 15, 2023. STRINGER / AFP The drop in temperatures on Sunday July…
The Chagos Archipelago – the last British colony in Africa
Status: 06/12/2023 4:42 p.m The British should soon be rid of their last colony in Africa: the Chagos archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean is to be handed…
Hot line between Beijing and Tokyo because of controversial archipelago
Status: 05/16/2023 8:10 p.m In the East China Sea, there are repeated tensions between China and Japan over a group of islands. In order to avoid future military clashes, a…
Chinese spy balloons have flown over the archipelago in recent years
Over Japan, “specific balloon-shaped flying objects” previously identified – notably in November 2019, June 2020 and September 2021 – would ultimately be Chinese spy balloons, according to “further analysis” of…
Gérald Darmanin back in New Caledonia in early March to discuss the status of the archipelago
He promised it, he does it. Gérald Darmanin will travel to New Caledonia from March 2 to 8, for his second trip there. The Minister of the Interior and Overseas…
Heavy snowfall and exceptional cold snap on the archipelago
The opportunity was too good: while all of Japan is facing heavy snowfall, causing transport disruptions, passers-by and tourists take the opportunity to immortalize in photos temples and shrines covered…