Kerguelen Adaları
Also known as Archipel des Kerguelen, Kerguelen's Land, Desolation Islands
archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, and one of the districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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The Kerguelen Islands are a remote archipelago located in the southern Indian Ocean that form part of France's Southern and Antarctic Lands territory. This isolated region is significant as a French possession in a strategically important ocean region and serves as a base for scientific research in one of Earth's most extreme environments.
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 45
- Area
- 39708000
- Elevation
- 409
- Image
- Mirounga leonina harem.JPG
- Perimeter
- 2800
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- Commons category
- Kerguelen Islands
- Commons gallery
- Îles Kerguelen
- maritime identification digits
- 635
- time of discovery or invention
- 1772-02-12
- described at URL
- www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/kergueleny
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2 mapped locations