The Kerguelen Arch is a former natural arch on the island of Grande Terre in the Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, an archipelago...
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The Kerguelen Islands (/kərˈɡeɪlən/ or /ˈkɜːrɡələn/; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel Kerguelen, pronounced [kɛʁɡelɛn]), also...
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ranges with many arches, Algeria Tukuyu natural bridge, Tanzania Wolfberg Arch, Cederberg, Western Cape, South Africa The Kerguelen Arch, Christmas Harbour...
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Port-Christmas (category Kerguelen Islands)
entrance of a natural arch, now collapsed, known as the Kerguelen Arch. It was here, in 1774, that the explorer Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec took possession...
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The Kerguelen Islands, an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, were discovered uninhabited on February 12, 1772 by Breton navigator Yves Joseph de...
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Terre in the Kerguelen Islands. The bay is located North of the Kerguelen, and opens towards the East, between the cape of the Kergelen Arch which limits...
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Baie de l'Oiseau (category Landforms of the Kerguelen Islands)
extreme North of the Kerguelen archipelago, and open towards the East, between Cap Français at the North, and the cape of Kerguelen Arch which closes it on...
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An Antarctic Mystery (category Kerguelen Islands)
University Press. ISBN 978-1-31-669437-4 Kauffmann, Jean-Paul The Arch of Kerguelen: Voyage to the Islands of Desolation Translated by Patricia Clancy...
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interpreted similarly to the North Arch volcanic field are also known from Kerguelen. Samples taken from the North Arch volcanic field are fine grained or...
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Recherche Archipelago Chagos Archipelago Eagle Islands Crozet Islands Kerguelen Islands Prince Edward Islands Archipelagos in the Red Sea: Dahlak Archipelago...
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Channichthys richardsoni (category Fauna of the Kerguelen Islands)
Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. It is endemic to the shelf waters of the Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean. It lives at depths of 126–310 metres (413–1...
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Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Crozet Islands, Heard-McDonald Islands, Kerguelen Islands, South Sandwich Islands Deschampsia argentea Lowe – Azores, Madeira...
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thin-billed Pachyptila belcheri and Antarctic P. desolata prions at Iles Kerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 228: 263–281...
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Traps in north-western India; the Kerguelen hotspot (100–35 million years ago) connects the Kerguelen Islands and Kerguelen Plateau to the Ninety East Ridge...
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Antarctica, and on 118 of the 131 main groups of islands, even on the isolated Kerguelen Islands. Due to its ability to thrive in almost any terrestrial habitat...
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dispersion route between these areas by a terrestrial bridge called the Kerguelen Plateau that formed prior to the separation of Africa and South America...
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window above it in the west facade and a larger window with a Romanesque arch in the east facade. Another door and two slit windows are in the south wall...
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End of London. A statue erected in his honour can be viewed near Admiralty Arch on the south side of The Mall in London. In 2002, Cook was placed at number...
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feature was the Transcontinental Arch, which ran southwest from the lowlands of the Canadian Shield. The shield and the arch were the only portions of the...
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, département des Cartes et Plans, SH, Arch. 30 "The Spanish quest for Terra Australis". State Library of New South Wales...
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System) are Notre-Dame des Vents at Port-aux-Français on the main island of Kerguelen and the Norwegian Lutheran Church, a former Lutheran chapel in Grytviken...
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3 million years. French Austral Lands and Seas FranceCrozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Île Saint-Paul, Île Amsterdam France 49°22′49″S 69°21′10″E...
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departed Cape Town on 19 October and called at Île de la Possession, the Kerguelen Islands and Heard Island – the latter reached on 26 November, with parties...
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known to be populations which summered in the Crozet Islands and the Kerguelen Islands, and migrated to La Roche Godon and Île Saint-Paul, Île Amsterdam...
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steel archways. One served as the entry to the dome and it had a transverse arch that contained modular buildings for the station's maintenance, fuel bladders...
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Continent History Expeditions Antarctic/Southern Ocean Roché Bouvet Kerguelen HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Adventure Furneaux Smith San Telmo Vostok Bellingshausen...
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Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica. 'Frank Wild, A. L. Kennedy, S. Evan Jones, C. Arch. Hoadley, Charles T. Harrisson, George Dovers, A. L. Watson and Morton H...
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consignations 1989: Le Bordeaux retrouvé (excluding trade) 1992: L'Arche des Kerguelen : voyages aux îles de la désolation, Flammarion, prix Jean-Freustié 1997:...
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Hatchery raised Atlantic salmon fry were released in the rivers of the Kerguelen Islands in a failed attempt to establish a population in the Indian Ocean...
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Y. & G. Duhamel (2004). Antarctic jaws: cephalopod prey of sharks in Kerguelen waters. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 51(1):...
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