Îles Kerguelen
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Français : Les Îles Kerguelen sont un archipel au sud de l'Océan Indien. C'est un territoire français, des bases scientifiques y sont installées.
English: The Kerguelen Islands are an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a French overseas territory. There are only scientific bases on the islands, unoccupied but for a few scientists at a time.
Español: Las Islas Kerguelen son un archipiélago en el sur del Océano Indico. Es un territorio francés de ultramar ocupado solo por bases científicas.
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Maps
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Topographic map, fr
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Topographic map, blank
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Administrative map, fr
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Blank map
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Position sur la terre
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Position on Earth
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Satellite view
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General map
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James Cook's map of Kerguelen island
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location of Foch island
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location of Prince of Monaco's islands
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location of the Society of Geography's peninsula
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location of Mont Ross
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Situation de Port-aux-Français
Views
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Cook Glacier: location and extension in 2004
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Gulf of Morbihan
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Mount Ross (1850m) seen from the Gulf of Morbihan
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Mountains and a sandur plain of Rallier du Baty peninsula
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Harem of Elephant seals on a beach of Rallier du Baty peninsula
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Cook Glacier: southern rim in 1983
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Part view of Port-aux-français in 1983
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Port-Couvreux
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Le Volcan du Diable (315 m)
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Herrmann's grave (detail of the inscription) on Kerguelen shore : Bernhard HERRMANN was a german marine soldier accidentally died in 1940
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Herrmann's grave (detail of the inscription) on Kerguelen shore : Bernhard HERRMANN was a german marine soldier accidentally died in 1940
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Remains of vats used for fusing elephant seal blubber
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Two Brothers Mountains (Monts des Deux Frères)
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Mount Ross - Kerguelen Archipelago
Flora
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Kerguelen's cabbage
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Kerguelen's cabbage (old plant)
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Man standing within a field of Kerguelen Cabbage
Fauna
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Commerson's dolphin
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Kerguelen's Fur seal (male)
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Southern Elephant seal (harem) : on a beach of the Rallier du Baty peninsula
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Southern Elephant seal (male)
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Southern Elephant seal (females) : one is giving birth
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Southern Elephant seal (pup)
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Southern Elephant seal (just weaned pup): first bath
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Southern Elephant seal (just weaned pups)
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Southern Elephant seal (young males): collective mudbath during moulting
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young Leopard seal
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Great skua
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pair of Rockhoppers penguins during brooding
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Chionis
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chick of Kelp gull
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young King penguin during moulting
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Colony of penguins
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Penguins
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Diomedea exulans wooing a mate