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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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    Joseph Marie de Kerguelen-Trémarec (13 February 1734 – 3 March 1797) was a French Navy officer. He discovered the Kerguelen Islands in 1772 during his...
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    plateau breaks sea level, forming the Kerguelen Islands (a French overseas territory) plus the Heard and McDonald Islands (an Australian external territory)...
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    French Southern and Antarctic Lands (category Island countries of the Indian Ocean)
    Amsterdam), a group to the north of the Kerguelen Islands. Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses), a dispersed group of islands around the coast of Madagascar. The...
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  • Kerguelen may refer to: Kerguelen Islands, a French territory located in the southern Indian Ocean Kerguelen Plateau, submerged continent in the southern...
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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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  • The Kerguelen Islands are part of the Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra ecoregion that includes several subantarctic islands. In this cold climate...
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    Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands and Bouvet Island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean; Marion Island, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen and...
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    the Australian plate, approximately 1,325 km north-northeast of the Kerguelen Islands. The population is about twenty-five people in winter and fifty people...
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    Its common name comes from the archipelago of its discovery, the Kerguelen Islands, and its generic name derives from Sir John Pringle, president of...
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  • Desolation Island may refer to: Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean Desolación Island, Chile Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands) Desolation Island (novel)...
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    Saint-Paul (France) Kerguelen Islands (France) Prince Edward Islands (South Africa) Marion Island Prince Edward Island List of islands of Antarctica and...
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    2017. The islands lie on the Antarctic Plate, roughly between the Kerguelen hotspot and Madagascar and southern Africa. The oldest island, Île de l'Est...
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    the islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean and have been an Australian territory since 1947. Heard Island and McDonald Islands contain...
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    Commerson's dolphin (category Fauna of the Kerguelen Islands)
    grey patterning with a white ventral band, and is found around the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean. The dolphin is named after French naturalist...
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    This is a list of islands of France, including both metropolitan France and French overseas islands. All French islands over 100 km2 (39 sq mi), ranked...
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    Île Longue is one of the Kerguelen Islands situated near to the south-east coast of Grande Terre, the principal island. The highest point is a mountain...
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    Cayman Islands. As of 2017[update], no evidence has been found that the islands had been occupied before their discovery by Europeans. The Cayman Islands got...
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    million years and has also produced the Kerguelen Islands, Naturaliste Plateau, Heard Island, the McDonald Islands, the Comei large igneous province in south...
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    is found exclusively on Kerguelen and Crozet Islands, though it has appeared as a vagrant on the nearby Prince Edward Islands. It summers on small lakes...
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    recognised. Kerguelen petrels breed colonially on remote islands; colonies are present on Gough Island in the Atlantic Ocean, and Marion Island, Prince Edward...
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    Port-Christmas (category Kerguelen Islands)
    Port-Christmas is a natural and historical site on the Kerguelen Islands, located at the northern tip of the main island, on the east coast of the Loranchet Peninsula...
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    (Terre Adélie), the Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet), the Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen), Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (Îles Saint Paul et Amsterdam)...
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    Port-aux-Français (category Geography of the Kerguelen Islands)
    (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ o fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is the main settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, and French Southern and Antarctic Lands, in the south Indian Ocean...
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    several Antarctic and subantarctic islands, including South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the Kerguelen Islands. Most of Antarctica is too cold...
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    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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    sub-Antarctic island groups are considered part of the Antarctic realm, including Bouvet Island, the Crozet Islands, Heard Island, the Kerguelen Islands, the McDonald...
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  • Pass was named after him. Robinson was born in March 1859 on the Kerguelen Islands to James William Robinson, a captain and sailor, and his wife Jane...
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    The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and other island territories located on the Antarctic Plate or south of the...
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  • list of rivers in the Kerguelen Islands, a group of subantarctic islands belonging to France in the southern Indian Ocean. "Kerguelen". Mapcarta. Retrieved...
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