Frioul archipelago
The Frioul archipelago is a group of four islands located off the Mediterranean coast of France, approximately from Marseille. The islands of the archipelago cover a total land area of approximately 200 hectares. According to the 2015 census, the population was 146.
Island | Length | Height | Notes |
Pomègues | long | high | The largest |
Ratonneau | long | high | |
If | Site of the Château d'If, where main fictional character in Alexandre Dumas, père's The Count of Monte Cristo was imprisoned. | ||
Tiboulen du Frioul or Îlot Tiboulen | Meaning "In front of the city" in Provençal, after the Latin antipolitanus. |
The islands of Pomègues and Ratonneau are connected by a mole built in 1822.