Kerguelen
Îles Kerguelen or the Kerguelen Archipelago are 3300 km southeast of Madagascar, so far south that they lie in the Antarctic Ocean, not the Indian. They're governed as part of the Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
- Archipelago with 45 residents
- Description: archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, and one of the districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Also known as“Archipel des Kerguelen”“Desolation Islands”“Kerguelen Islands”“Kerguelen’s Land”
Kerguelen
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Latitude of center
-49.25° or 49° 15′ south
Longitude of center
69.1667° or 69° 10′ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kerguelen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kerguelen Argipel”
- Afrikaans: “Kergueleneilande”
- Amharic: “የከርጉለን ደሴቶች”
- Arabic: “جزر كيرغولين”
- Armenian: “Կերգելեն կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Islles Kerguelen”
- Azerbaijani: “Kergelen”
- Basque: “Kerguelen uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кергелен”
- Belarusian: “Кергелен”
- Bengali: “কার্গেলেন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Breton: “Inizi Kergelenn”
- Bulgarian: “Кергелен”
- Catalan: “Illes de la Desolació”
- Catalan: “Illes Kerguelen”
- Cebuano: “Îles Kerguelen”
- Chinese: “克尔戈伦岛”
- Chinese: “凯尔盖朗群岛”
- Croatian: “Kerguelen”
- Croatian: “Otočje Kerguelen”
- Czech: “Archipel Kerguelen”
- Czech: “Kerguelenovy ostrovy”
- Czech: “Kergueleny”
- Danish: “Desolation Islands”
- Danish: “Kerguelen”
- Dutch: “Kerguelen-archipel”
- Dutch: “Kerguelen”
- Dutch: “Kergueleneilanden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزر كيرجولين”
- Esperanto: “Kergelen”
- Esperanto: “Kergelenoj”
- Esperanto: “Kerguelen-insuloj”
- Estonian: “Kerguelen”
- Estonian: “Kergueleni saared”
- Finnish: “Kerguelen-saaret”
- Finnish: “Kerguelen”
- French: “Archipel des Kerguelen”
- French: “Iles de la Désolation”
- French: “Îles Kerguelen”
- French: “L’Ile de la Désolation”
- French: “L’ile désolation”
- French: “Les iles Kerguelen”
- Gagauz: “Kerguelen adaları”
- Galician: “Illas Kerguelen”
- Georgian: “კერგელენი”
- German: “Kerguelen”
- Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Κεργκελέν”
- Greek: “Κεργκελέν”
- Gujarati: “કેર્ગુલેન આયલેંડ”
- Hebrew: “איי קרגלן”
- Hindi: “केर्गुएलेन द्वीप समूह”
- Hungarian: “Kerguelen-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Kergueleneyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Kerguelen”
- Interlingue: “Kerguelen”
- Italian: “Isole Kerguelen”
- Japanese: “ケルゲレン”
- Japanese: “ケルゲレン島”
- Japanese: “ケルゲレン諸島”
- Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಜೆಲೆನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Кергелен аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Кергелен”
- Korean: “케르겔렌 제도”
- Kotava: “Kerguelen ewaleem”
- Latin: “Kerguelen”
- Latvian: “Kergelēna arhipelāgs”
- Latvian: “Kergelēna sala”
- Latvian: “Kergelēna salas”
- Latvian: “Kergelēna”
- Ligurian: “Isoe Kerguelen”
- Lithuanian: “Kergelenas”
- Lithuanian: “Kergeleno sala”
- Lithuanian: “Kergeleno salos”
- Lombard: “Isole Qergelenn”
- Macedonian: “Кергелен”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Kerguelen”
- Malay: “Kerguelen Islands”
- Marathi: “कारग्वेलेन आईसलँडस”
- Northern Frisian: “Kerguelen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerguelen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Archipel de Kerguelen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Archipel des Kerguelen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Archipel Kerguelen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desolation Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerguelen-øyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerguelen”
- Norwegian: “Kerguelen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Kerguelen”
- Ossetian: “Кергелен”
- Ossetian: “Кергелены сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “جزایر کرگولن”
- Polish: “Wyspy Kerguelena”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Kerguelen”
- Romanian: “Insulele Kerguelen”
- Russian: “Архипелаг Кергелен”
- Russian: “Кергелен”
- Russian: “Остров Кергелен”
- Russian: “Острова Кергелен”
- Scots: “Kerguelen Islands”
- Serbian: “Кергелен”
- Serbian: “Острва Кергелен”
- Sicilian: “Ìsuli Kerguelen”
- Sinhala: “කර්ගුඑලෙන් දූපත්”
- Slovak: “Kergueleny”
- Slovenian: “Kerguelenovi otoki”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Kerguelen”
- Spanish: “Islas de la Desolación”
- Spanish: “Islas Kerguelen”
- Spanish: “Kerguelen”
- Swedish: “Iles Kerguelen”
- Swedish: “Kerguelen”
- Swedish: “Kerguelenöarna”
- Swiss German: “Kerguelen”
- Tamil: “கெர்குயிலேன் இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Кергелен”
- Telugu: “కెర్గుయెలిన్ దీవులు”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะแกร์เกแลน”
- Turkish: “Kerguelen Adaları”
- Uighur: “كېرگۇلىن تاقىم ئاراللىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Архіпелаг Кергелен”
- Ukrainian: “Кергелен”
- Urdu: “جزائر کرگولن”
- Uzbek: “Kergelen”
- Vietnamese: “Kerguelen”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Kerguelen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Kerguelen”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Kerguelen”
- Western Frisian: “Kerguëlen”
- Western Frisian: “Kerguëleneilannen”
- Western Panjabi: “جزائر کرگولن”
- Wu Chinese: “苦盖浪群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “克革倫群島”
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