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ÃŽle aux Pigeons (French: Pigeon Island; formerly called ''ÃŽle Canaille'') is a small uninhabited island located about off the coast of
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (french: link=no, Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in t ...
, a self-governing territorial
overseas collectivity The French overseas collectivities (''collectivité d'outre-mer'' or ''COM'') are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status. The COMs include some former French overseas colonies ...
of
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and the last remaining part of
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in North America.Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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. Île aux Pigeons is covered with short grass and is shaped roughly like a diamond with a rocky coast. The island is slightly sloping with a maximum height of with its greatest lengths measuring about by , on its north–south and west–east axes, respectively. Maps from the 17th century show the island as having been named ''Isle Canaille'' or ''Isle de Canaille''. Its current name appears by the end of the 18th century. The island is uninhabited, but Edgar Aubert de la Rüe wrote that a farm may have existed once on site.


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{{reflist Islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon Uninhabited islands of France