Kerguelen
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Geophysicists on the team combined the biologger recordings with infrasound monitoring data from Kerguelen Island in the Southern Ocean to build “soundscape” maps on the birds’ journeys.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 8, 2023
After I’d racked up thirty hours of it and tallied exactly one seabird of note, a Kerguelen petrel, I dialled back and devoted myself to the more sociable compulsion of playing bridge.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
Further south, the only habitation is the handful of research stations on the scattering of tiny French-run islands including Kerguelen - a group of volcanic outcrops between Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2014
Food and feeding ecology of the sympatric thin-billed Pachyptila belcheri and Antarctic P. desolata prions at Iles Kerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2012
The government had just sent a ship's lieutenant, M. Kerguelen, to make discoveries in these unknown seas.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
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