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Kerguelen Islands
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Kerguelen Islands

Volcanic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories; area 7,215 km/2,787 sq mi. They were discovered in 1772 by the Breton navigator Yves de Kerguelen and annexed by France in 1949. Uninhabited except for scientists (centre for joint study of geomagnetism with Russia), the islands support a unique wild cabbage containing a pungent oil.
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Male fur seals have no parental responsibility and so forage further afield, to the neighbouring Iles Kerguelen, down the Kerguelen Plateau and along the continental shelf near Antarctica--where it is possible that they feed on krill.
HIPPIES assessed who eats whom around Heard Island by Gales, Nick; Constable, Andrew / Ecos
 
 
 
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