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Kerguelen Islands

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Ker·gue·len Islands  (kûrg-ln, -ln)
A French-administered island group in the southern Indian Ocean southeast of South Africa. The largest island, Kerguelen, was discovered by a French navigator in 1772 and is used mainly as a research station.


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A team from National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) attached monitoring devices to a dozen male and female macaroni penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) at the onset of winter on the French Indian Ocean territory of the Kerguelen Islands.
Heading now on an easterly course towards Marion and Prince Edward Island, but later tonight the wind will start to shift into the west and I will start to arc more south-east, before gybing tomorrow towards the Kerguelen Islands.
Nelson, [19121, was an account of a voyage in a tiny boat with a crew of four to Tristan da Cunha and the sub Antarctic Kerguelen Islands.
 
 
 
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