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The country that looks tiny on maps but is actually 'bigger' than Spain, France and the UK
Some of the most well-known include the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean, Spitsbergen off the coast of Norway, and Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. The latter is the only inhabited ...
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These extraordinary Australian islands are teeming with life—and we must protect them before it's too late
The Heard and McDonald islands are just a tiny tip of the Kerguelen Plateau—a huge underwater mass rising high above the surrounding ocean basins. The plateau intercepts the Antarctic ...
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Almost half of remote French island hit by wildfire: official
A haven for wildlife, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, none of which have any permanent settled population, also ...
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Optical imaging of mesopelagic particles indicates deep carbon flux beneath a natural iron-fertilized bloom in the Southern Ocean
We recorded vertical profiles of size distributions of particles (ranging from 0.052 to several mm in equivalent spherical diameter) in the natural iron-fertilized bloom southeast of Kerguelen Island ...
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The eastern rockhopper penguin breeds on Prince Edward Island and the Marion Islands in South Africa, the Crozet Islands and Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories, Australia's Heard and ...
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Almost half of remote French island hit by wildfire: official
A haven for wildlife, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, none of which have any permanent settled population, also include the remote Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean.