ÃŽle aux Vainqueurs (French: Isle of Winners/Vanquishers) 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
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of
France
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and the last remaining part of
New France
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in North America.
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The island is flat and low on the water similar to the neighboring and larger island
ÃŽle aux Marins. Its length is just over running north to south and covers less than . The island, along with neighboring
ÃŽle aux Pigeons are popular sites for gulls, for which in 2018, 294 nests were counted and recorded.
The island has remained uninhabited except for being occasionally used as a quarantine site between 1869, when a war brig,
Le Curieux, passed through with cases of
yellow fever
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, and 1915, when it was decommissioned.
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Islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Uninhabited islands of France