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The Frioul archipelago is a group of four islands located off the Mediterranean coast of France, approximately 4 kilometres (2 miles) 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	2.7 km (1.7 mi) long	89 m (292 ft) high	The largest of the islands. The island consists of a port on the southeast side, named Port de Pomègues.^[1] Pytheas of Massalia noted the existence of a polar ice cap from this island.^[2]
Ratonneau	2.5 km (1.6 mi) long	89 m (292 ft) 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		30 m (98 ft) high	Meaning "In front of the city" in Provençal, after the Latin antipolitanus.

The islands of Pomègues and Ratonneau are connected by a mole, Digue de Berry, built in 1822.

References edit

^ H.O. Pub. 1917. pp. 106–107. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^ Shell, Marc (2014). Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics. Stanford University Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780804789264. Retrieved 2 November 2021.