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	Location & climate of Kerguelen Island, South Indian Ocean
		The main island occupies measures roughly 120 km by 140 km, occupies 6,675 sq km and is surrounded by around 300 other smaller islands, reefs and rocks, forming an archipelago of 7,215 sq km.
		The coast of Kerguelen is deeply indented with fjords, whilst the interior is heavily glaciated.
		As Kerguelen lies on the Antarctic Convergence where upwelling cold water from the Antarctic mixes with the the warmer waters of the Indian Ocean, birdlife and marine mammals are abundant.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/kerguelen/kerguelen_islands.html (300 words)

	French Colonies - Kerguelen Archipelago, Ile Kerguelen
		Kerguelen's weather is harsh, with rain, sleet or snow falling more than 300 days a year; it is not unusual to get snow at sea level in the middle of the summer.
		During the political upheaval of the French Revolution, Kerguelen was perceived to be a "victim of the monarchy", and was released.
		Kerguelen is visited several times a year by the Marion Dufresne, the world's biggest and most sophisticated oceanographic research vessel, bringing supplies and rotating crews of scientists at the base.
	www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Kerguelen.shtml (2142 words)

	Kerguelen: History
		The discovery of Kerguelen is largely due to the fact that in the 18th century, geographers believed that there had to be a large continent on the southern hemisphere, to balance the large land masses of North America, Europe and Asia.
		Kerguelen was charged with insulting du Cheyron in front of the crew, and also with smuggling a sixteen-year-old girl aboard.
		The fact that Kerguelen's discoveries turned out to be much less valuable than expected did not work in his favour and he was sentenced to six years of incarceration, as well as being dismissed from the Navy.
	www.kerguelen.org /kerguelen/history_en.shtml (1615 words)

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		Although the islands were spread out over 142 miles of ocean from 29°10' to 31°30' south and from 171°45' to 179° west, d'Entrecastreux considered them as one group, which he named the "Kermadec Islands" after his second in command.
		The island is surrounded by kelp, a seaweed that tends to foul propellers and to wash ashore and rot.
		It is a round island with a maximum elevation of 9000 feet and an average annual temperature of 32.7°F. There are no natural harbors, and the wind seems to come from the wrong direction on all sides or, as a sailor would say, it has no lee side.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=1535 (15958 words)

	Facts and Photos of Crozet, Kerguelen, & other sub-Antarctic Islands
		The archipelago of Kerguelen is made up of one large island with hundreds of smaller islands surrounding it.
		Kerguelen Islands are also called the "islands of desolation" because the landscape is barren without trees.
		The sub-Antarctic Islands are unusual because the ecosystem is based on the resources the penguins bring onto the land from the sea.
	www.siec.k12.in.us /~west/proj/penguins/subislands.html (435 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: James Cook
		Cape Circumcision was not to be found where reported and since he was well south of Kerguelen's discovery Cook determined that Kerguelen's La France Australe could not be part of a southern continent either.
		Although his intentions were to continue to England, his temptation to the south could not be resisted and at the end of January he sighted a group of islands even more desolate than South Georgia.
		They reached the islands at the end of November and in the middle of January, 1779, Cook anchored at Kealakekua Bay where he was greeted by thousands of cheering natives.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000071.htm (1714 words)

	Kerguelen islands / TAAF - images - Iles Kerguelen - travel-images.com
		Kerguelen island: Chateau Gaillard mountain - southern side of the entrance to the Fjord des Portes Noires
		Kerguelen island: Port Jeanne d'Arc - ruins of the whaling station
		Kerguelen island: Port Jeanne d'Arc - closeup of the moss beside the stream
	www.travel-images.com /kerguelen.html (184 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra (AN1104)
		on Marion, the Crozet and the Kerguelen Islands (Marchant and Higgins 1990, Berutti 1979).
		Gribnitz K.H., Kent L.E. and Dixon R.D. Volcanic ash, ash soils and the inferred Quaternary climate of sub-Antarctic Marion Island.
		Weimerskirch H. and Stahl J.-C. The breeding and feeding ecology of the Kerguelen tern Sterna virgata.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/an/an1104_full.html (8507 words)

	Port aux Français, the scientific base of the Kerguelen archipelago (Travelog: 5/16) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The archipelago of Kerguelen (50°S / 70°S) is mainly composed by an island "Grande terre", intermingled with hundreds of smaller islands : the total surface is similar to the one of Corsica, but has as many kilometers of coasts than France, so much the shore is cut out in fjords and bays.
		To reach the scientific base, Port aux Français, established in the east of the archipelago, we must circumvent the major part of the archipelago by the south.
		The maritime zone around Kerguelen (as vast as France) is exploited by a trawler from La Réunion and several ukrainian ships which have a licence of fishing.
	www.edouard.com /travel/kerguelen/taaf5.html (434 words)

	French Austral and Antarctic Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Since the Decree of 19 September 1960, the Outlying Islands were administrated by the Prefet of Reunion.
		The Outlying Islands are made of four islands located in the Mozambique Channel (Bassas da India, Europa, Juan de Nova, Glorieuses), and Tromelin, isolated in the north of Reunion.
		The vessels of the TAAF fishery police are stationed in the Kerguelen islands.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/tf.html (1275 words)

	Understanding CCAMLR's Approach to Management
		The fishery off the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands ended in the first half of the 1980s, after the two good year classes forming the backbone of the fishery were exhausted (Figures 3 and 4).
		The stock around the Kerguelen Islands supports a fishery only when a strong year class enters the fishery, and there is evidence that this stock has declined over the last decade.
		In the Kerguelen Islands, grey rockcod was the third most important species (after marbled rockcod and mackerel icefish) for almost two decades of fishing (Figure 5).
	www.ccamlr.org /pu/e/e_pubs/am/p7.htm (2331 words)

	ULB - DSTE: Kerguelen Archipelago3 (Weis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Penguins are very common creatures on Kerguelen Archipelago and are extremely fascinating to watch.
		Kerguelen Archipelago is characterized by very variable weather characteristics, from blue sky to pouring rain in a very short time period.
		The blowing winds average 110 km/h over the whole year and it is not unusaul to get snow at sea level in the middle of the summer.
	homepages.ulb.ac.be /~dweis/research/KergArch3.html (219 words)

	Kerguelen Islands & the Sound of Jura
		Johnson planned to harvest the large population of Kerguelen Islands elephant seals for their blubber which contained a valuable edible oil similar to whale oil.
		She used to leave Cape Town in September with coal for for the Kerguelen sealers, and remained down South as a store for the oil until the steam freighter came down in February when she returned to the Cape'.
		Peau, that the French public became aware of the massive scale of the slaughter of the elephant seals on their island, all for the benefit of a foreign company who payed a pittance for their rights.
	glennmci.brinkster.net /ki/ki.html (1446 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Kerguelen Islands
		The perimeter of the large island is carved by fjords, and the rocky landscape is very sparsely vegetated with grasses, mosses, and a plant in the cabbage family.
		The highest point on the island is Mount Ross, which has an elevation of 1,850 meters; it is also thought to be the youngest volcanic peak on the island.
		Among the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands are several species of penguins, elephant and fur seals, and dozens of species of birds, including terns and albatrosses.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17574 (349 words)

	velux5oceans \| BREAKING NEWS \| News \| KERGUELEN ISLANDS READY TO RECEIVE DALTON, BUT KNOX-JOHNSTON MARCHES ON
		KERGUELEN ISLANDS READY TO RECEIVE DALTON, BUT KNOX-JOHNSTON MARCHES ON Graham Dalton, the Kiwi skipper sailing his Open 50 A SOUTHERN MAN AGD is now just under 100 hundred miles from reaching the remote Kerguelen Islands.
		Race Director David Adams has been talking to the authorities in Kerguelen to make sure that they will be ready to receive the weary solo sailor and help him make his repairs as quickly as possible.
		The net difference for the time penalty not served in Kerguelen will be added to his total time when he finally arrives in Fremantle.
	www.velux5oceans.com /page/NewsDetail/0,,12345~943892,00.html (481 words)

	Kerguelen Islands: definition, usage and pronunciation - YourDictionary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Kerguelen Islands: definition, usage and pronunciation - YourDictionary.com
		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.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/k/k0040200.html (41 words)

	SCS: Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
		Antarctic fur seals were almost made extinct by commercial sealing for their fur in the 18th and 19th centuries, perhaps only a few hundred of the seals remaining, and small scale hunting continued until 1907.
		A 1988-1989 study at Bird Island, South Georgia, found 208 sightings of entanglement, the main culprits being polypropylene straps, nylon string and fishing net, indicating a figure of 5,000-10,000 fur seals entangled for the entire South Georgia population.
		Antarctic fur seals on World Heritage listed Macquarie Island were afforded additional protection in 2000 by the creation of a new federal 16 million hectare Marine Park on the eastern side of the island.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/antfursl.htm (1033 words)

	Journeys:Kerguelen
		The French scientist in charge of their SuperDARN radar on Kerguelen Island wanted somebody to go down and help him with some maintenance.
		Kerguelen is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
		Together with a few neighbouring island groups it belongs to France and is administered directly by the French government as part of their Southern and Antarctic Territories (Terres Australe et Antartique Français - TAAF).
	www.caboose.org.uk /journeys/KERintro.html (460 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Kerguelen Islands \| Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Kerguelen Islands are composed primarily of Tertiary flood basalts and a complex of plutonic rocks.
		The trachybasaltic Mount Ross stratovolcano at the southern end was active during the late Pleistocene.
		An active fumarole field is related to a series of Holocene trachytic lava flows and lahars that extend beyond the icecap (Ballestracci and Nougier, 1984).
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0304-02= (150 words)

	Excite UK - Regional - Polar Regions - Antarctic - French Southern Territories - Kerguelen Islands
		Brief notes on the Kerguelen Cabbage, found in the Sub Antarctic Islands of the Indian Ocean.
		Times (London) columns by journalist and former politician Matthew Parris'' visit to Kerguelen for 6 months in 2000.
		Includes map of Kerguelen and links to explorers who have visited the island.
	www.excite.co.uk /directory/Regional/Polar_Regions/Antarctic/French_Southern_Territories/Kerguelen_Islands (107 words)

	Amazon.com: The Arch of Kerguelen: Voyage to the Islands of Desolation: Books: Jean-Paul Kauffmann,Patricia A. Clancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Few islands are as remote as the Kerguelens, a treeless, roadless waste in the southern Indian Ocean.
		The islands were discovered in 1772 by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen, a gloomy Breton whose disappointment with his find was reexperienced by everyone who tried to do anything with the Kerguelens.
		No tree grows in the Kerguelens, but the wind blows, a fierce, perpetual gale that shapes moods, accenting the sense of desolation, of geographical orphanage, that the Kerguelens impart.
	www.amazon.com /Arch-Kerguelen-Voyage-Islands-Desolation/dp/1568581688 (1996 words)

	Alwynne B. Beaudoin - Chronology of Antarctic Events
		Chevalier Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, discoverer of the Kerguelen Islands, born in Landudal, Finistère, northwest France.
		Kerguelen's second in command, St-Allouarne, with the shallower-draft ship 'Gros Ventre', gets ashore at Sea Lion Bay and claims the land, now known as the Kerguelen Islands, for France.
		Chevalier Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, discoverer of the Kerguelen Islands, dies at the age of 63.
	www.scirpus.ca /reading/antarctic_chron.htm (10225 words)

	Kerguelen: Come for the Cabbage. Stay for the... Urm. \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		British sketchwriter Matthew Parris spent several months on Kerguelen - his reports for the London Times are here.
		Kerguelen is cool, but the hope of setting foot on Bouvet Island sits close to the top of my canonical list of reasons to exist.
		I have been to 41 countries, and I once thought to myself, 'what is the most remote place on earth I could travel to?' I've been to the South Pacific already, so I looked on my map in the Indian Ocean and found the Kerguelen Islands.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/23152 (436 words)

	On the wind-forcing of bottom pressure variability at Amsterdam and Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean
		Bottom pressure records from Amsterdam and Kerguelen Islands (southern Indian Ocean) were collected between 1986 and 1989, and interpreted previously in terms of volume transport fluctuations between the islands [
		Since a substantial portion of the mean transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) flows between the islands, it was assumed that ACC transport variability was the predominant signal being measured, and comparisons with ACC variability at other longitudes were made.
		We find that Kerguelen bottom pressure is forced predominantly by wind stress curl over the Kerguelen Plateau for periods between around 5 days and 1 year.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004.../2003JC002060.shtml (367 words)

	Terror Hails from Kerguelen Islands By Siegfried
		Had I given my location (anywhere on this lonely planet - say for argument's sake the Kerguelen Islands - a place that probably one in every 5 million Americans has ever heard of), I would have triggered an onrush of "tourism"...
		Kerguelen is a French possession, lying some 13,000 km from
		They were so secretive and operating so clandestinely that none of their activities have ever been traced back to them.
	margotbworldnews.com /2005July/July11/terrorhails.html (1604 words)

	Kerguelen Islands maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
		Kerguelen Islands maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
		This 3-sheet set illustrates the topography of this southern Indian Ocean island chain.
		We can provide color copies of the original sheets.
	www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/kergisld.htm (71 words)

	Visible Earth: Kerguelen Islands
		The Kerguelen Islands sit in the South Indian Ocean in the triangle formed by Australia, Africa, and Antarctica.
		At 1,850 meters, the islands’ highest point is Mount Ross, capped with a white glacier in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer image, captured on March 4, 2004 by NASA’s Aqua satellite.
		The Kerguelen Islands, owned by France, consist of one main island surrounded by about 300 smaller islands.
	visibleearth.nasa.gov /view_rec.php?id=6667 (97 words)

	Kerguelen Islands Map, Road, Travel, Tourist, Detailed, Topographic, Physical
		Kerguelen Islands, Road and Topographic Map, Indian Ocean.
		As more maps and charts become available of the Kerguelen Islands, they will be posted.
		Thank you for your interest in the Kerguelen Islands map.
	www.maps2anywhere.com /Maps/Kerguelen_Islands_map.htm (162 words)

	Definition of Kerguelen Islands - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Robin KJ approaches Kerguelen Islands
		I am in my little capsule and could be in space, I have not seen another human for more than six weeks and miss the human inter-reactions, like discussion and argument that provide stimulation in our normal lives.
		I am lined up to pass north of the Kerguelen Islands, which are a mark of the course and must be left to the south of all the competing yachts.
		The reason for this is to prevent the boats going too far south and even further from possible assistance should it become necessary.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20061114135831ywnews.html (994 words)

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