Kerguelen Islands

[ kur-guh-len, -luhn ]

noun

1. an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2,394 sq. mi. (6,200 sq. km).

Example Sentences

The more likely option is meeting with a French Navy ship at the Kerguelen Islands, three to four days away by sail, to transfer Escoffier to that ship and allow Le Cam to continue racing alone.

From New York Times

The study, published in the journal, Ecology and Evolution, looked at the genetic make-up of gentoos living in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic and Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean.

From BBC

In the Kerguelen Islands, one of the most isolated places in the world, behavioural ecologist Mary-Anne Lea says she “felt what it’s like to live nearly alone among marine animals, and have sensed just how little we know about these species”.

From Nature

Weimerskirch and his colleagues visited albatross breeding colonies on the Amsterdam, Crozet and Kerguelen islands, French outposts in the Southern Indian Ocean.

From Seattle Times

This is part of the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, one of the most remote archipelagos in the world.

From Nature