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The transient killer whales of the Crozet Islands are famous for intentionally beaching (and later un-stranding) themselves while actively hunting the islands' breeding seal population. This is a very rare behaviour, most often seen in the Patagonia region of Argentina , and is thought to be a learned skill passed down through generations of ...
Crozet Islands: 122 47 24: Ua Pou: French Polynesia: ... By population. List of the most populated French islands. Name Location Population 1: Réunion: Indian Ocean ...
The territory includes the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean near 43°S, 67°E, along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France. Adélie Land, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville after his wife, covers about 432,000 km 2 (167,000 sq mi).
View of East Island (background) from king penguin colony on Possession Island, with the ship Marion Dufresne. Île de l'Est, or East Island, is a part of the subantarctic archipelago of the Crozet Islands. With an area of 130 km 2 (50 sq mi) it is the second largest island of the group.
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.
Crozet Islands: Alfred Faure: 340 [27] Indian Ocean: Kerguelen Islands: Port-aux-Français: 7,215 [27] Population: 45 researchers in winter, 110 in summer. Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands: Amsterdam Island: Martin-de-Viviès: 66 [27] Saint Paul Island: Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean: Banc du Geyser: Saint Pierre, Réunion: 0 Mozambique ...
The largest seabird colonies are on the Prince Edward Islands, followed by the Crozet Islands which have breeding colonies of all six species of albatross as well as more than half the world's population of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus).
Alfred Faure research station Eaton's Pintails inhabit the island Observation results at Ship Bay, Île de la Possession, published 1893. Île de la Possession, or Possession Island, formerly Île de la Prise de Possession, is part of the Subantarctic Crozet Archipelago. Administratively, it is part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.