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Before being officially catalogued in 1772, the Kerguelen Islands appear as the "Ile de Nachtegal" on Philippe Buache's 1754 map entitled Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique où se voyent les nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au Sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance ('Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and ...
Kerguelen Islands (Archipel des Kerguelen): A volcanic island group in the southern Indian Ocean, southeast of Africa. Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (Îles Saint Paul et Amsterdam): A group of islands to the north of the Kerguelen Islands. Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses): A dispersed group of islands around the coast of Madagascar.
Bathymetry of the Kerguelen Plateau Location of the plateau – the white spot is Kerguelen Island. The Kerguelen Plateau (/ ˈ k ɜːr ɡ əl ən /, / k ər ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /), [1] also known as the Kerguelen–Heard Plateau, [2] is an oceanic plateau and large igneous province (LIP) located on the Antarctic Plate, in the southern Indian Ocean. [3]
Mont Crozier is a summit of the Kerguelen Archipelago, a group of volcanic islands in the southern Indian Ocean, southeast of Africa. Mont Crozier is located on the Courbet Peninsula of Grande Terre and rises to 979 metres (3,212 ft) above sea level.
On the south coast of the peninsula is the French research station of Port-aux-Français, the only permanent settlement in the archipelago.Molloy, 10 km to the west of Port-aux-Francais along the north shore of the Gulf of Morbihan, is the site of a former observatory, established on 7 September 1874, by an American expedition led by G. P. Ryan, to observe the 1874 Transit of Venus.
The îles de Boynes or Boynes Islands, are four small rocky islands of the Kerguelen archipelago, lying some 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Presqu'ile Rallier du Baty on the main island, just south of the 50 south parallel
Topographic map of the Kerguelen archipelago showing the peninsula in the north-west (upper left) The northern tip of the peninsula is an important breeding site for macaroni penguins The Péninsule Loranchet , also known as Presqu'île Loranchet , ( Loranchet Peninsula in English) is a peninsula of Grande Terre, the main island of the ...
Mont Ross is a stratovolcano, the highest mountain in the Kerguelen Islands at 1,850 metres (6,070 ft). It is located in the Gallieni Massif, at the end of the Gallieni Peninsula, east of Baie Larose on the main island of Grande Terre. [2] The volcano is composed primarily of trachybasalt and was active during the late Pleistocene. Eruptives ...