Additionally, the island is also home to its own species of hissing cockroach. ===Climate=== Climate is affected by the Agulhas Current with water temperatures usually above 30 °C, southeast trade winds during the (austral) winter and occasional cyclones. == History == While the island has probably been sighted by navigators since at least the 16th century, it takes its name from the British ship Europa, which visited it in December 1774.
The island had never been inhabited until 1820, when the French family Rosier moved to it.
Ruins and graves on Europa island attest to several attempts at settlement from the 1860s to the 1920s.
The island officially became a possession of France in 1897. The island, garrisoned by a detachment from Réunion, has a weather station and is visited by scientists.
Ruins and graves on Europa island attest to several attempts at settlement from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Though uninhabited now, it is part of the "Scattered Islands" of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands administrative region. Europa Island was the setting of a 1968 episode of "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau", partly focusing on the breeding habits of the green sea turtle. == Description == Europa is in diameter, with a maximum altitude of , and has of coastline.
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