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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Sarabande de la Suite No. 11 - George Frideric Handel/Haendel

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Information (not in order)
Wikipedia
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Discover France
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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
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Wikipedia
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Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island, Captain Cook’s third voyage
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French Ichthyological Society - Cybium
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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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