The Kerguelen Islands are at the end of the world. They're in the southern Indian Ocean, halfway between Madagascar and Antarctica. A few dozen researchers inhabit a lonely field station. There's ...

The Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean is the world's longest continuously erupting supervolcano, according to research published in the journal Geology. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Wild Sheep Descended From Single Pair Show Surprising Genetic Diversity Date: June 21, 2007 Source: Université du Québec à Montréal Summary: Reconstructing the genetic history of a population ...

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The Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean are one of four districts in the French Austral and Antarctic Territories. These islands, one of the most isolated places on Earth, house a military base ...

IF Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe considers that, having published a description of the new Teal from Kerguelen's Land, he has done all that is necessary in relation to the collection of birds made by Mr ...

Located 13,000 kilometres from the French mainland, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Kerguelen archipelago is home to a maritime nature reserve that has been listed as a UNESCO World ...

Grave of the German soldier Bernhard Herrmann, who died in Kerguelen during World War II. Credit: B.navez / Wikimedia Commons Since the 1950s, France has maintained a permanent base in the town of ...

How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a French ...

Deep western boundary currents east of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Kerguelen plateau are important pathways for transporting deep Antarctic water masses to the global ocean. An array of moored ...