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The Chafarinas Islands ((スペイン語:Islas Chafarinas) , Berber: ''Igumamen Iceffaren'' or ''Takfarinas'', Arabic: جزر الشفارين or الجزر الجعفرية), also spelled Zafarin, Djaferin or Zafarani, are a group of three small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco with an aggregate area of , to the east of Nador and off the Moroccan town of Ras Kebdana. The Chafarinas Islands are one of the Spanish territories on North Africa off the Moroccan coast known as ''plazas de soberanía''. ==Geography== The Chafarinas Islands are made up of three islands (from west to east, with areas in hectares): * Isla del Congreso (25.6 ha) * Isla Isabel II (15.3 ha) (with garrison) * Isla del Rey (11.6 ha) Under Spanish control since 1847, there is a 190-man military garrison on Isla Isabel II, the only stable population on the small archipelago, down from 426 people in 1900 and 736 people in 1910. The islands had a certain relevance in Spanish environmentalist circles during the 1980s and 1990s as the very last individual of Mediterranean monk seal in Spanish territory lived there, until it disappeared in the 1990s.〔(Foca monje del Mediterráneo | CONSUMER.es EROSKI )〕 Nine out of eleven marine invertebrates considered endangered species and the second largest colony in the world of the endangered Audouin's gull inhabit the islands.〔Ceberia, Monica et al (17 September 2012) (The last remains of the empire ) El Pais in English, Retrieved 24 September 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chafarinas Islands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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