Clipperton Island is low-lying and largely barren, save for scattered grasses and a few clumps of coconut palms.

Clipperton Island lies about southeast of Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, the nearest land.

Clipperton Island has a tropical oceanic climate, with average temperatures of.

Location of Clipperton Island

The only land animals known to exist on Clipperton Island are bright-orange crabs ( which are poisonous to consume ), birds, lizards and rats, the last of which seem to have arrived from recently wrecked ships.

A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.

Mexico reasserted its claim over Clipperton Island late in the 19th century, and on December 13, 1897, sent the gunboat La Democrata to occupy and annex it.

Survivors from Clipperton Island, 1917

By 1914, around 100 people — men, women, and children — were living on Clipperton Island, resupplied every two months by a ship from Acapulco.

Following this, no further attempts were made to permanently colonize Clipperton Island, though it would be briefly occupied during the 1930s and ' 40s.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

Clipperton Island was abandoned by the end of World War II, after briefly being occupied by the US ( 1944 – 45 ).

There have been infrequent scientific and amateur radio expeditions, and in 1978 Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited with his team of divers, plus a survivor from the 1917 evacuation, to film a television special called Clipperton: The Island that Time Forgot.

Satellite image of Clipperton Island

Commencing in 2010, the Nautilus Explorer will be running diving expeditions from Cabo San Lucas to Clipperton Atoll via Socorro Island every spring.

During the night of February 10, 2010, the Sichem Osprey, a Maltese chemical tanker, ran aground on Clipperton Island on its way from the Panama Canal to South Korea.

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A small volcanic outcrop rising to on its southeast side is referred to as " Clipperton Rock ".

Coconut palms on Clipperton ; the lagoon is visible beyond the trees

Land elevations average, though Clipperton Rock, a barren volcanic outcrop located in the atoll's southeast, is considerably higher and forms the island's tallest point.

The reef surrounding Clipperton is exposed at low tide.

Although 115 species of fish have been identified in the waters near Clipperton, the only economic activity in the area is tuna fishing.

When Snodgrass and Heller visited Clipperton in 1898, they reported that " no land plant is native to the island ".

The result is that Clipperton is now virtually a sandy desert, with only 674 remaining palms counted by C. Jost during the " Passion 2001 " French mission, and five islets in the lagoon with grass that these terrestrial crabs cannot reach.

One interesting feature observed about Clipperton Island's flora is that the vegetation is arranged in parallel rows of species ; dense rows of taller species alternate with lower, more open vegetation.

Clipperton's name comes from John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century, and who is said to have passed by the island.

* One uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico which belongs directly to the central State public land and is administered by the high-commissioner of the French Republic in French Polynesia: Clipperton.

In the first season episode " Big Man on Little Stick " as the Professor is helping surfer Duke Williams with provisions before his trip back to Hawaii he mentions the location as, which would put it very close to Clipperton Island, an uninhabited atoll owned by France.

For the Clipperton IWR table, oxygen is then breathed the entire portion of the treatment without any air breaks.

For the Clipperton IWR table, descent is made to the initial treatment depth maintaining a partial pressure of 1. 4 ATA.

For lack of alternatives, the term is also still useful to those discussing issues which concern the Americas and the nearby oceanic islands, such as Bermuda and Clipperton Island, collectively.

It was, however, during this journey, that he is said to have discovered Clipperton Island.

Much more is known about Clipperton ‘ s second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, in 1719.

The first description is from 1704, by pirate John Clipperton.

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

Pigs that had previously inhabited Clipperton had been eradicated prior to this time, though the crewmen reported seeing their skeletons around the atoll.

The Clipperton and Clipperton ( a ) methods were developed for use on a scientific mission to the atoll of Clipperton, 1, 300 km from the Mexican coasts.

The most promising of these deposits in terms of nodule abundance and metal concentration occur in the Clipperton Fracture Zone of the eastern equatorial Pacific between Hawaii and Central America.

Rogers ' book was carried by such South Pacific navigators as Admiral George Anson and privateering captains John Clipperton and George Shelvocke.

: Breeds in the central and western Pacific and around Australia, as well as off Mexico and on Clipperton Island.