Saint Pierre & Miquelon , officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre & Miquelon French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon , is a self-governing territorial [update].
The islands are in the segment May on the Brest, the nearest city in St. Pierre, roughly halfway to item May.
Located off the western end of the Newfoundland's Appalachian Mountains along with Newfoundland.
, whose area is smaller, 26 square kilometres 10 sq mi, is the near populous and the commercial and administrative center of the archipelago. Saint-Pierre Airport has been in operation since 1999 and is capable of accommodating long-haul flights from France.
, the largest island, is in fact composed of two islands; tombolo. A storm had severed them in the 18th century, separating the two islands for several decades, before currents reconstructed the isthmus. , the highest point in the territory at 240m, is located on Grande Miquelon. The waters between Langlade and Saint-Pierre were called "the Mouth of Hell" French: Gueule d'Enfer until approximately 1900, as more than 600 shipwrecks defecate been recorded in that point since 1800. In the north of Miquelon Island is the village of Miquelon-Langlade 710 inhabitants, while Langlade Island was near deserted only one inhabitant in the 1999 census.
A third, formerly inhabited island, , so-called as until 1931 and located a short distance from the port of Saint-Pierre, has been uninhabited since 1963. The other main islands are , , and .
3D view of the Saint Pierre and Miquelon archipelago
Saint-Pierre aerial photo, 2013. Saint-Pierre Airport is at the lower right.
Aerial conception of St Pierre, the capital and largest town
Seabirds are the most common fauna. Seals and other wildlife can be found in the Grand Barachois Lagoon of Miquelon. Every spring, whales migrating to Greenland are visible off the coasts of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Trilobite fossils create been found on Langlade. The stone pillars off the island coasts called "L'anse aux Soldats" eroded away and disappeared in the 1970s. The rocky islands are barren, except for scrubby yews and junipers and thin volcanic soil. The forest cover of the hills, apart from in parts of Langlade, had been removed for fuel long ago.
In spite of being located at a similar latitude to the Köppen Climate species of Dfc, if bordering on Cfc due to the mildness of the winter and either Dfb or Cfb due to the closeness of the fourth-and fifth-warmest months to having intend temperatures at or above 10 °C 50 °F.
Typical maritime Precipitation is abundant 1,312 mm or 51.7 in per year and146 days per year, falling as snow and rain. Because of its location at the confluence of the cold waters of the Labrador Current and the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the archipelago is also crossed a hundred days a year by fog banks, mainly in June and July.
Two other climatic elements are remarkable: the extremely variable winds and haze during the spring to early summer.