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Crozet survived the disaster, and successfully led the survivors back to their base in Mauritius. In 1776, Crozet met James Cook at Cape Town , at the start of Cook's third voyage . [ 4 ] Crozet shared the charts of his ill-fated expedition, and as Cook sailed eastward, he stopped at the islands, naming the western group Marion and the eastern ...
As it enters the Crozet Basin at 53°E, the transport of the ARC is 35 Sv, most of which is recirculated northward before reaching the Kerguelen-Amsterdam Passage. [8] The current east of the Crozet Basin, at 66°E-70°E, is called the South Indian Ocean Current and lacks the distinctive features of the ARC. [4]
Crozet (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Crozet is nestled at the foot of the Jura mountains in eastern France some 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the centre of the Swiss city of Geneva and approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) from the French city of Lyon .
In the Guiana Basin, west of 40°W, the sloping topography and the strong, eastward flowing deep western boundary current might prevent the Antarctic bottom water from flowing west: thus it has to turn north at the eastern slope of the Ceará Rise. At 44°W, north of the Ceará Rise, Antarctic bottom water flows west in the interior of the basin.
Crozet may refer to: Crozet Islands, a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean; Crozet, Ain, a commune in the Ain department in eastern France; Claudius Crozet (1789–1864), soldier, educator, and civil engineer; Crozet, Virginia, a census-designated place in Albemarle County in the United States
Alfred Faure Station has a very mild tundra climate (Koppen ET) with cool to cold summers and cold (but still averaging above freezing) winters.Due to its oceanic location near the subpolar low, it has a very cloudy and rainy climate with just 600 hours of bright sunshine per year (one of the lowest in the world) and over 70 inches (1750 mm) of rain a year.
The following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins.
The Crozet shag is a member of the blue-eyed shags group. It has slightly different plumage from other members of its group and occupies a highly specific range, which is why it is recognized as its own species. The breeding plumage of the Crozet shag features black upperparts with green to bluish sheen on the upper wing-coverts. [2]