Bassas da India (French pronunciation: [basa da ɛ̃dja]; Malagasy: Nosy Bedimaky) is an uninhabited, roughly circular atoll located in the southern Mozambique Channel, about halfway between Mozambique and Madagascar (about 385 km [239 mi] further east) and around 110 km (68 mi) northwest of Europa Island.

[1] The atoll consists of ten barren rocky islets, with no vegetation, totaling 20 hectares (49 acres) in area.

The region is also subject to cyclones, making the atoll a long-time maritime hazard and the site of numerous shipwrecks.

The Judia ("Jewess", for the ancestry of its owner Fernão de Loronha[2]) was the Portuguese ship that discovered the feature by running aground on it in 1506.

[8] Several illegal tourism charters departing from Mozambique or South Africa have been seized since 2013 by the French Navy.