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French Southern and Antarctic Lands

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

French Southern and Antarctic Lands overseas territory of France, including Adélie Land, which covers c.200,000 sq mi (520,000 sq km) in Antarctica , and a number of islands in the S Indian Ocean. The largest of these is Kerguelen (1,318 sq mi/3,414 sq km). One of 300 islands in the Kerguelen Archipelago, it is a base for research, seal hunting, and whaling. The Crozet Islands, to the west, and Saint Paul and Amsterdam islands, to the northeast, are also part of the territory. Author not available, FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS. , The Columbia Encyclopedi... Read more

Kerguelen
...300 mi (5,310 km) SE of the southern tip of Africa; largest of...7,000 sq km), part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands . Kerguelen Island rises in...discovered in 1772 by the French navigator Yves Joseph de Kerguélen-Trémar... Read more

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...in the east; Artois , Picardy, French Flanders (see Nord dept.), and...Dauphiné , and Provence . The French Alps have some of the highest...Provence forms the celebrated French Riviera . Languedoc extends from...Roussillon , Foix , Béarn , and French Navarre and the vast provinces...which, ... Read more

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	FRANCE TO ESTABLISH ANTARCTIC NATURE RESERVE. ; ...France's southern and Antarctic territories...frequenting French territories in the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic and restrict...France's Southern Ocean and Antarctic territories...Adelie, the French part of the Antarctic continent... Read more
	Fed: Man overboard found dead in Southern Ocean ; ...found dead in Southern Ocean HOBART...fell from a French Antarctic research vessel in the Southern Ocean today...40-year-old Frenchman failed to report...watch on the Antarctic research ship...used by the French Antarctic exploration...the joint French and ... Read more
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	Fed: Giant iceberg blocking route into Australian field base ; ...ABOARD L'ASTROLABE, SOUTHERN OCEAN, Oct 27 AAP...Australians to a remote Antarctic outpost has been...eastern Australian Antarctic Territory, is also...obstacle for the French resupply vessel L'Astro...the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. The...1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic ... Read more
	MELTING MOMENTS IN GEEK HEAVEN ; In September, Antarctica awakes. The first rays of the southern summer extend across the...major governments to science. Antarctica makes up a tenth of the planet...clues to its future. Each southern summer, some 3,000 scientists...Ellis-Evans of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Between ... Read more
	FRANCE: SHIPOWNERS PREFER EUROS OVER KERGUELEN FLAG ; Summary: French shipowners believe that the French merchant shipping fleet...Central Committee of French Shipowners (CCAF). Such...rules risk destroying the French shipping fleet. Such...would be saved. The French Government has proposed...provisions for registering French ships in ... Read more
	Expedition sets out to study carbon release.(News) ; ...CHANGE in wind patterns in the Southern Ocean could inhibit its ability...between the atmosphere and the Southern Ocean, south of Africa. Global...heading the expedition, on the French vessel Marion Dufresne, which...studies both the Arctic and Antarctic. Scientists from the University...team will ... Read more
	No rhyme to albatross' roaming. ; ...long search for food in the southern oceans of the world, a study...a pattern named after the French mathematician Paul Pierre Levy...albatrosses living on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. They...out the work at the British Antarctic Survey, located in Cambridge... Read more
	In Wolf Blitzer's wake, discounts are top weapon to restart travel ; ...expedition ship for a 23-day voyage to the Antarctic. Amid the ubiquitous flocks of sheep...world has become. Hot news in the Antarctic When the mercifully short war ended...and I were lurching across the rough Southern Ocean on a new Japanese-built ship, the Frontier Spirit. But even in the ... Read more
	The captain and the deflater ; ...America while shooing the French away from the Gulf of St Lawrence...time in search of the great southern land. Having sailed further...laid to rest the myth of an Antarctic Shangri-la. He grew tired...engraver. After joining the French-run papal army to fight Garibaldi...own downfall but that of ... Read more

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	LET HEROES SPEAK: ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS.(Review)
	Gurney, Alan. The race to the white continent; voyages to the Antarctic.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
	DANTE'S PURGATORY.(Kerguelens)

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