Kerguelen Islands

Kerguelen Islands

Kerguelen Islands connects to 7011 places across 10 topics through 46 Bunkabop connections, dominated by nature and science threads. The remote French subantarctic archipelago sits within the Antarctic realm alongside the Crozet Islands and shares many connections with New Zealand, Australia, and France. Fossilized conifer wood points to a forested early Cenozoic past. Whalers from Britain, America, and Norway hunted resident whale and seal populations to near extinction. A former sounding rocket range now hosts a SuperDARN radar station.

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