The Kerguelen Islands | France's Antarctic Archipelago
The Kerguelen Islands, also known as The Desolation Islands are an incredibly interesting archipelago. Discovered quite recently in human history, this previously uninhabited group of islands exists as a nature reserve manned by teams of scientists who rotate twice a year. It's not quite the Antarctic, and it's not quite France, it's the Kerguelen Islands.
Well that was a doozy. I need to lie down for a bit.
Note: Instead of "ancestors of ship cats" I meant to say "descendants of ship cats" but unless you're a swathy homunculean creature of some sort or variety then you could tell what I meant.
-Chapters:
Intro (00:00)
What are the Kerguelen Islands? (01:39)
Why are they French? (05:43)
The Islands Today (09:32)
Outro (11:12)
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Music (in order)
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Information (not in order)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguel...
Discover France
https://www.discoverfrance.net/Coloni...
de, Kerguelen-Trémarec, Yves-Joseph. Voyages Dans les Mers du Nord, Australes et des Indes : Carnet de Bord, CLAAE, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central,
Encyclopedia Brittanica
https://www.britannica.com/place/Kerg...
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_v...
Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island, Captain Cook’s third voyage
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/ch...
Wikivoyage
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kergue....
Science Direct
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Geographicus
https://www.geographicus.com/P/ctgy&C...
Australia Gov't
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1...
French Ichthyological Society - Cybium
https://sfi-cybium.fr/en/node/2922
Wikimedia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CNES
https://cnes.fr/en
Berthier, Etienne & Bris, Raymond & Mabileau, Laure & Testut, L. & Rémy, Frédérique. (2009). Ice wastage on the Kerguelen Islands (49°S, 69°E) between 1963 and 2006. Journal of Geophysical Research. 114. 10.1029/2008JF001192.
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