St Paul,

St Paul, a bare volcanic islet, 860 feet high, in the Indian Ocean, midway between Africa and Australia, in 38° 42' S. lat. and 77° 32' E. long.; area, 3 sq. m. Both it and the densely vegetated New Amsterdam (26 sq. m.), 50 miles to the north, were taken possession of by France in 1843. For the beaching here of H.M.S. Megara (June 1871), and the eleven weeks' detention of her crew, see Blackwood's Magazine for January 1872.—St Paul's Rocks, a group of small islets 1° N. of the equator and 540 miles from the South American coast.