The territory includes Ashmore Reef ( West, Middle, and East Islets ) and Cartier Island ( 70 km east ) with, a total area of within the reefs and including the lagoons, and 114, 400 m² of dry land.

Cartier Island Marine Reserve includes the entire sand cay of Cartier Island, the reef surrounding it, the ocean for a radius around the island, and below the seafloor.

** Cartier Island, 17, 000 m² land area ;

Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

* June 29 – Jacques Cartier discover Prince Edward Island, Canada.

* Jacques Cartier Monument, Harrington Island

Jacques Cartier Island, located on the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador in the town of Quirpon, is said to have been named by Jacques Cartier himself on one of his voyages through the Straits of Belle Isle during the 1530s.

The other is the Jacques Cartier Strait on the north side of Anticosti Island.

The Jacques Cartier Strait ( French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier ) is a strait in eastern Quebec, Canada, flowing between Anticosti Island and the Labrador Peninsula.

* Cartier Island Marine Reserve

Earlier attempts by Cartier at Charlesbourg-Royal in 1541, at Tadoussac in 1544, and at Sable Island in 1598 had failed.

The Jacques Cartier Bridge () is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.

The remaining four external territories, the Australian Antarctic Territory, the Coral Sea Islands Territory, the Territory of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island, and the Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands have no permanent population and do not have an Administrator as such but are administered directly by the Commonwealth Government, currently under the auspices of the Attorney-General's Department.

Jacques Cartier became the first European to reach the area now known as Montreal in 1535 when he entered the village of Hochelega on the Island of Montreal while in search of a passage to Asia during the Age of Exploration.

The island is also accessible via the Jacques Cartier Bridge from both the Island of Montreal and Longueuil on the south shore.

These territories included Ashmore Island, Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, and Cocos Islands.

* Cartier Island, an island north-west of Australia that is part of Australia's Northern Territory

According to the book Pioneers in Canada ( Blackie and Sons 1912 ) Jacques Cartier in 1534 commented on the great number of birds and Polar Bears on Funk Island.