Use the PNG version for inserting into articles as it is lighter. A series of articles were published in The Times in which Parris charted his visit, and a documentary "To The Ends of Earth: Dreaming on Desolation Island" was produced for UK television, which aired on Channel 4. UTM projection, WGS84 datum Overall, the glaciers of the Kerguelen Islands cover just over 500 km2 (190 sq mi). The fifth book in Patrick O'Brian's AubreyâMaturin series, published in 1978, is entitled Desolation Island.[37]. La Grande Terre des Kerguelen est l'île principale de cet archipel français de l'océan Indien. The average annual temperature is 4.9 °C (40.8 °F) with an annual range of around 6 °C (11 °F). Le terme était cependant utilisé auparavant, plutôt en tant que nom commun désignant de manière évidente la terre principale, comme chez Aubert de la Rüe dans son opuscule sur les Terres australes[3]. [5] There are no airports on the islands, so all travel to and from the outside world is conducted by ship. The most important ones are listed below: There are also a number of notable localities, all on La Grande Terre (see also the main map): From 1968 to 1981, a site just east of Port-aux-Français was a launching site for sounding rockets, some for French (Dragon rockets), American (Arcas) or French-Soviet (Eridans) surveys, but at the end mainly for a Soviet program (M-100).[21]. Cap Ratmanoff is the eastmost point of the Kerguelens, and the site of a geomagnetic station. Français : Carte topographique des îles Kerguelen. Under the Köppen climate classification, Kerguelen's climate is considered to be an ET or tundra climate, which is technically a form of polar climate, as the average temperature in the warmest month is below 10 °C (50 °F). During their stay the crew performed maintenance and replenished their water supplies. He is buried in what is sometimes referred to as "the southernmost German war grave" of World War II. One of the buildings was restored in 1977, and another in 2007. En revanche, il existe une base à Port-aux-Français, sur la côte méridionale de la péninsule Courbet. Date: 17 March 2009: Source: L’archipel, d’une superficie d’environ 7 215 km 2, est constitué d’une île principale, Grande Terre, entourée de plus de 300 îles et îlots satellites, pour la plupart très proches de l’île principale. [33] The 1874 short story "The Tachypomp" by Edward Page Mitchell tells of a hole through the center of the Earth with one end in the United States and the other in "Kerguellen's Land" (which is roughly antipodal to the United States and Canada[34]). This form of volcanism creates a monumental relief shaped as stairs of pyramids. The warmest months of the year include January and February, with average temperatures between 7.8 and 8.2 °C (46.0 and 46.8 °F). An American expedition led by G. P. Ryan erected a station at this site on 7 September 1874. Port-aux-Français, a scientific base, is along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Morbihan on La Grande Terre. [clarification needed]. Before being officially discovered in 1772 the Kergeuelen Islands appear as the "Ile de Nachtegal" on Philippe Buache's 1754 map entitled Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique où se voyent les nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au Sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance ('Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Pole, where the new discoveries made in 1739 to the south of the Cape of Good Hope may b… au format Eps, Wmf, Svg et Jpg. There are also five fishing boats and vessels, owned by fishermen on Réunion Island (a department of France about 3,500 km (2,200 mi) to the north) who are licensed to fish within the archipelago's exclusive economic zone. Localisation des îles Crozet, Éparses, Kerguelen, St-Paul et Amsterdam et de la Terre Adélie. The main island is the home of a well-established feral cat population, descended from ships' cats. Comme le reste des îles Kerguelen et des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, la Grande Terre ne possède aucun habitant permanent.En revanche, il existe une base à Port-aux-Français, sur la côte méridionale de la péninsule Courbet.S'y relaient environ 80 scientifiques en hiver et 120 en été, ainsi qu'une dizaine d'ingénieurs et de techniciens. [8](p167) Modern industrial sealing, associated with whaling stations, occurred intermittently between 1908 and 1956. No eruptive activity has been recorded in historic times, but some fumaroles are still active in the south-west of Grande-Terre island. 120 hivernants (aucun habitant permanent). For other uses, see, French-administered subantarctic archipelago, Outlying territories of European countries. The so-called Kerguelen sub-continent may have had tropical flora and fauna about 50 million years ago. Carte vectorielle gratuite Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (T.A.A.F.) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Certaines sources de données de la carte … The west coast receives almost continuous wind at an average speed of 35 km/h (22 mph) because the islands are between the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties. Territoire des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (T.A.A.F. The Kerguelen sub-continent finally sank 20 million years ago and is now one to two kilometres (0.6 to 1.2 mi) below sea level. La partie occidentale est bordée de hautes falaises, de 400 à 700 mètres de haut, la partie orientale descend de manière plus adoucie vers la mer. La Grande Terre mesure environ 150 kilomètres de longueur d'ouest en est et 120 kilomètres de largeur du nord au sud. Elles sont un territoire français d' outre-mer et des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises . La longitude du Cap de Bonne Espérance a été franchie par Charlie Dalin, le leader du Vendée Globe, ce mardi matin. In 1924, it was decided to administer these territories (in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land) from Madagascar; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations. The highest point is Mont Ross in the Gallieni Massif, which rises along the southern coast of the island and has an elevation of 1,850 metres (6,070 ft). On 6 January 1774 he commanded his lieutenant, Henri Pascal de Rochegude, to leave a message notifying any passers-by of the two passages and of the French claim to the islands. The islands inspired the 2008 song "The Loneliest Place on the Map" by singer Al Stewart. Les TAAF, c’est un ensemble d’îles et d’archipels appartenant à la France,mais qui pourtant sont très peu connus du grand public. Interactive enhanced satellite map for Port-aux-Français, Îles Kerguelen, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF). Cook verified and confirmed the passage of de Kerguelen by discovering and annotating the message left by the French navigator. In 2000 British journalist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris spent four months on Kerguelen, staying with the researchers at Port-aux-Français. Français : Cette carte a été créée par Rémi Kaupp (User:Korrigan) et placée sous la ou les licence(s) ci-dessous. L'île Kerguelen (la Grande Terre, 6 675 km 2 ) est recouverte The islands are part of the Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra ecoregion that includes several subantarctic islands. That same year, they collectively became known as Les Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and were administratively part of the French Département d'outre-mer de la Réunion. Port Douzième (Twelfth Port) is a hut and former geomagnetic station on the southern shore of the Golfe du Morbihan. [36] The Kerguelen Islands were the setting for a post-Second World War confrontation between W. E. Johns's recurring hero, Biggles, and the crew of a gold bullion-bearing German U-boat, in the 1948 novel Biggles' Second Case. This ship's first fatality of the war occurred when a sailor, Bernhard Herrmann, fell while painting the funnel. Sa superficie est de 6 675 km2, ce qui en fait la troisième plus grande île française après la Grande Terre de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et la Corse. Les Iles Kerguelen sont un groupe d'îles de la partie australe de l'Océan Indien (69,30° E; 49,36° S). S'y relaient environ 80 scientifiques en hiver et 120 en été, ainsi qu'une dizaine d'ingénieurs et de techniciens. Hotel Rouen, hôtel, Archipel des Kerguelen. CNFRA n° 22, 55 p. 1967, IGN/CNFRA. 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Or make Kerguelen under sail â three jiggers burned wi' smoke! Port Curieuse, a harbor on the west coast across Ãle de l'Ouest, was named after the ship. Wind speeds of 150 km/h (93 mph) are common and can even reach 200 km/h (120 mph). Situées pour une partie entre l’Afrique et Madagascar et pour l’autre partie près du pôle Sud, c’est vrai, il y a peu de moyens de s’y rendre. It is possible this early name was after Abel Tasman's ship De Zeeuwsche Nachtegaal. These are those of the settlers who were unable to survive in the harsh environment. [17] For the 1874 transit, George Biddell Airy of the U.K. Royal Observatory organised and equipped five expeditions to different parts of the world. Facilities there include scientific-research buildings, a satellite tracking station, dormitories, a hospital, a library, a gymnasium, a pub, and the chapel of Notre-Dame des Vents. Bulletin actualisé chaque jour à 12h. Carte détaillée des îles Kerguelen Les îles Kerguelen sont un archipel localisé au sud de l' Océan Indien . [6] Yves de Kerguelen organised a second expedition in 1773 and arrived at the "baie de l'Oiseau" by December 1773. La Montjoie is a scientific camp on the south shore of Baie Rocheuse, along the northwestern coast of the archipelago. Utiliser la version PNG dans les articles pour un chargement plus rapide et un meilleur rendu. Agricultural activities were limited until 2007 to raising sheep (about 3,500 Bizet sheep, a breed that is rare in mainland France) on Longue Island for consumption by the occupants of the base, as well as small quantities of vegetables in a greenhouse within the immediate vicinity of the main French base. In the 1950s and 1960s, French geologist Edgar Albert de la Rue began to introduce several species of salmonids. Vous êtes libre de la réutiliser, tant que vous me citez en tant qu'auteur et suivez les instructions de la licence. The accumulation is of a considerable amount; basalt flows, each with a thickness of three to ten metres, stacked on top of each other, sometimes up to a depth of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). Since 1992, the French Centre National d'Ãtudes Spatiales (CNES) has operated a satellite and rocket tracking station, located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Port-aux-Français. ", Henry De Vere Stacpoole set his 1919 novel The Beach of Dreams on the islands. [31], The islands appear in a number of fictional works. The climate is harsh and chilly with frequent high winds throughout the year. There are no indigenous inhabitants, but France maintains a permanent presence of 45 to 100 soldiers, scientists, engineers, and researchers. The islands were officially discovered by the French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec on 12 February 1772. Pour ce qui est des TAAF et des îles éparses, ce nombre varie très souvent. Le nom de Grande Terre a été consacré par l'usage. [14], The Australian James Kerguelen Robinson (1859â1914) was the first human born south of the Antarctic Convergence, on board the sealing ship Offley in Gulf of Morbihan (Royal Sound then), Kerguelen Island on 11 March 1859.[15][16]. However, the attempt failed and the last inhabitants had to be evacuated, and the station abandoned, in 1931. CNES needed a tracking station in the Southern Hemisphere, and the French government required that it be located on French territory, rather than in a populated, but foreign, place like Australia or New Zealand. The title character in Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, visits the islands. There are also populations of wild sheep (Ovis orientalis orientalis) and reindeer. Leur population donnée ici n'est donc qu'une approximation très imprécise fournie à titre purement indicatif. Glaciation caused the depression and tipping phenomena which created the gulfs at the north and east of the archipelago. Thomas Nelson and Sons: London) describes the months that he spent surveying the island and hunting seals to finance his expedition. In 2004 they were permanently transformed into their own entity (keeping the same name) but having inherited another group of five very remote tropical islands, les îles Ãparses, which are also ruled by France and are dispersed widely throughout the southern Indian Ocean. The main island of the archipelago is called La Grande Terre. Starting in 1912, sheep were raised here to create an economic base for future settlement. The 1880 collection Songs from the Mountains by the Australian poet Henry Kendall contains the poem Beyond Kerguelen. L'île Amsterdam est d'origine volcanique, d'aspect plutôt massif avec une superficie de 58 km2. [11], In 1825, the British sealer John Nunn and three crew members from Favourite were shipwrecked on Kerguelen until they were rescued in 1827 by Captain Alexander Distant during his hunting campaign. Until 1955, the Kerguelen Islands were administratively part of the French Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies. Waves up to 12â15 m (39â49 ft) high are common, but there are many sheltered places where ships can anchor. Utiliser la version PNG dans les articles pour un chargement plus rapide et un meilleur rendu. Other forms of volcanism are present locally, such as the strombolian volcano Mont Ross, and the volcano-plutonic complex on the Rallier du Baty peninsula. Les principales sont, par rapport au glacier Cook : Comme le reste des îles Kerguelen et des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, la Grande Terre ne possède aucun habitant permanent. Hotel Rouen est située à proximité de Port-aux-Français. The wildlife is particularly vulnerable to introduced species; one particular problem has been cats. On this site an astronomical and geomagnetic observatory was erected on 26 October 1874 by a German research expedition led by Georg Gustav Freiherr von Schleinitz. Français : Carte administrative des îles Kerguelen en français. Date: 22 June 2008: Source: Image:Kerguelen-geo.png, made by Varp under licence Public Domain, translated in french and vectorized. UTM projection, WGS84 datum; Carte de Îles Kerguelen Retour en haut: Ces coordonnées sont approximatives. In 1908, the French explorer Raymond Rallier du Baty made a privately funded expedition to the island. Various veins and extrusions of lava such as trachytes, trachyphonolites, and phonolites are common all over the islands. The islands are part of a submerged microcontinent called the Kerguelen sub-continent. The sealing era lasted from 1781 to 1922 during which time 284 sealing visits are recorded, nine of which ended when the vessel was wrecked. Cabane Port-Raymond is a scientific camp at the head of a fjord cutting into the Courbet Peninsula from the south. The Kerguelen Islands (/kÉrËÉ¡eɪlÉn/ or /ËkÉËrÉ¡ÉlÉn/;[2] in French commonly Ãles Kerguelen but officially Archipel Kerguelen,[3] pronounced [kÉÊÉ¡elÉn]), also known as the Desolation Islands (Ãles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged by the southern Indian Ocean. Réserve naturelle des Terres australes françaises, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, Territoire des terres australes et antarctiques françaises, Portail des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grande_Terre_(îles_Kerguelen)&oldid=168347325, Page avec coordonnées similaires sur Wikidata, Portail:Terres australes et antarctiques françaises/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. There are also feral rabbits and sheep that can be hunted, as well as wild birds. [7], Thereafter, a number of expeditions briefly visited the islands, including the third voyage of Captain James Cook in December 1776. The Cook Ice Cap (French: Calotte Glaciaire Cook),[19] France's largest glacier with an area of about 403 km2 (156 sq mi), lies on the west-central part of the island. [9] Relics of the sealing period include try pots, hut ruins, graves and inscriptions. Démographie. During this time Captain Robert Rhodes, her master, prepared a chart of the islands. Baie de l'Observatoire (Observatory Bay) is a former geomagnetic observation station, just west of Port-Aux-Français, on the eastern fringe of the Central Plateau, along the northern shore of the Golfe du Morbihan. [32] French writer Jules Verne's 1897 novel An Antarctic Mystery offers a follow up to Poe's book, and revisits the Kerguelen Islands. Providing you with color coded visuals of areas with cloud cover. Elles constituent l’un des cinq districts des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (TAAF). [28] The main indigenous animals are insects along with large populations of ocean-going seabirds, seals, and penguins.[29]. SITUATION METEO DU DIMANCHE 6 DECEMBRE : PASSAGE DES ÎLES KERGUELEN. Ce dimanche 6 décembre, la tête de la course passe au large des îles Kerguelen (carte ci-dessus) qui sont soumises à de fortes conditions météo en raison d’une dépression (969 hPa) située au sud de ces îles. Le mont de la Dives, le point le plus haut de l'île, culmine à 881 m. Les côtes rocheuses, p… Since the end of the whaling and sealing era, most of the islands' species have been able to increase their population again. Mais peu, ça ne … Les sommets s'élevant à plus de 1 000 mètres d'altitude sont : La partie ouest est recouverte par le glacier Cook qui culmine à 1 049 mètres d'altitude. The main island, Grande Terre, is 6,675 km2 (2,577 sq mi) in area, about three quarters of the size of Corsica, and is surrounded by a further 300 smaller islands and islets,[4] forming an archipelago of 7,215 km2 (2,786 sq mi). Hotel Rouen sur le site Mapcarta, la carte libre. Kerguelen receives frequent precipitation, with snow throughout the year as well as rain. The Kerguelen islands form an emerged part of the submerged Kerguelen Plateau, which has a total area nearing 2.2 million km2 (0.85 million sq mi). The islands serve as a main location in the 1998 novel Kilo Class by Patrick Robinson. It was named by Captain. The huts remain, as well as a graveyard with five anonymous graves. L’archipel est situé près du 50e parallèle, les fameux « cinquantièmes hurlants ». Le littoral de la Grande Terre est fortement découpé et forme de nombreuses péninsules et presqu'îles. The derelict settlement consists of four residential buildings with wooden walls and tin roofs, and a barn. [26] Comparable climates include the Aleutian Islands, Campbell Island (New Zealand), Falkland Islands, Iceland, northern Kamchatka Peninsula, Labrador, and Wollaston Islands. English: Blank topographic map of the Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean, France. Of the seven species introduced, only brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis and brown trout Salmo trutta survived to establish wild populations. lll Aktuelle eBay Gutscheine Finde täglich die besten Gutscheincodes Sichere dir Rabatte und spare Geld bei deiner Bestellung auf mydealz.de. Port Christmas is a former geomagnetic station on Baie de l'Oiseau, in the extreme northwest of the Loranchet Peninsula. That station was also established to observe the 1874 transit of Venus. On the Buache map, "Ile de Nachtegal" is located at 43°S, 72°E, about 6° north and 2° east of the accepted location of Grande Terre. Il sera néanmoins freiné par les hautes pressions centrées au milieu de l’océan Indien. All climate readings come from the Port-aux-Français base, which has one of the more favourable climates in Kerguelen because of its proximity to the coast and its location in a gulf sheltered from the wind. French author Jean-Paul Kauffmann produced a non-fiction account of his 1991 journey to the islands, titled The Arch of Kerguelen: Voyage to the Islands of Desolation. Kerguelen has been continually occupied since 1950 by scientific research teams, with a population of 50 to 100 personnel frequently present. Before being officially discovered in 1772 the Kerguelen Islands appear as the "Ile de Nachtegal" on Philippe Buache's 1754 map entitled Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique où se voyent les nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au Sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance ('Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Pole, where the new discoveries made in 1739 to the south of the Cape of Good Hope may be seen'). Three of these were sent to the Kerguelen Islands and led by Stephen Joseph Perry, who set up his main observation station at Observatory Bay and two auxiliary stations, one at Thumb Peak led by Sommerville Goodridge, and the second at Supply Bay, led by Cyril Corbet. Jacques Nougier Bibliographie cartographique des îles Kerguelen de 1772 à 1962. Utiliser la version PNG dans les articles pour un chargement plus rapide et un meilleur rendu. The former sounding rocket range to the east of Port-aux-Français is currently the site of a SuperDARN radar. See more ideas about french southern and antarctic lands, leopard seal, kerguelen islands. La carte ci-dessus montre que ce dimanche, les skippers de tête passeront au large des Îles Kerguelen, toujours à l’arrière du front froid qui poursuivra sa route vers l’est. ), l'archipel des Kerguelen, situé dans l'extrême sud de l'océan Indien, est formé de l'île Kerguelen (ou île de Désolation) et de presque trois cents îlots, qui s'étendent au total sur environ 7 215 kilomètres carrés. Kerguelen est une des îles composants ls TAAF. [22] The plateau was built by volcanic eruptions associated with the Kerguelen hotspot, and now lies on the Antarctic plate.[23]. Îles Kerguelen is an island in French Southern and Antarctic Lands and has an elevation of 409 metres. Port-aux-Français receives a modest amount of precipitation (708 mm (27.9 in) per year) compared to the west coast which receives an estimated three times as much precipitation per year. [5] There is also a French satellite tracking station. Elle mesure 10 km dans sa plus grande longueur (axe nord-sud) et 7 km en largeur (axe est-ouest). They are among the most isolated places on Earth, located more than 3,300 km (2,100 mi) from Madagascar, the nearest permanently populated location; Heard Island is 450 km (280 mi) to the south-east. Port Couvreux, a former whaling station, experimental sheep farm, and geomagnetic station is on Baie du Hillsborough, on the southeast coast of Presqu'île Bouquet de la Grye.
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