Desolation Island: Book 5 (Aubrey-Maturin)

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Robinson, James (1906). "Appendix B: Log of the Offley". In Cerchi, D. (ed.). Reminiscences (Report). Hobart, Tasmania, AU: Archives Office of Tasmania. pp.98–99. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Tenedos Bay BC: If its shade you need then Tenedos Bay is a great option. We stopped here to walk to the lake. There were sheltered tent pads, bear caches toilet and some hiking trails. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4 When Captain George Vancouver and his crew sailed through these waters in 1792, they were astonished to find that the water was remarkably deep even close to shore. They had no way of knowing that Desolation Sound has the most dramatic drop in altitude from mountain peak to ocean floor in all of North America, with glacier-carved fjords that are a repository of deep geologic time, falling to nearly 2,000 feet. Port Christmas is a former geomagnetic station on Baie de l'Oiseau, in the extreme northwest of the Loranchet Peninsula. It was named by Captain James Cook, who re-discovered the islands and who anchored there on Christmas Day, 1776. This is also the place where Captain Cook coined the name "Desolation Islands" in reference to what he saw as a sterile landscape.

George Byron, one of the Midshipmen of HMS Leopard, promoted to acting fourth lieutenant after the epidemic. Kerguelen receives frequent precipitation, with snow throughout the year as well as rain. Port-aux-Français receives a modest amount of precipitation ( 708mm or 27 + 7⁄ 8in per annum) compared to the west coast which receives an estimated three times as much precipitation per year. History is all fine and good you're probably saying, but what about this beautiful and dang

Climate

The Kerguelen Islands ( / k ər ˈ ɡ eɪ l ə n/ or / ˈ k ɜːr ɡ əl ə n/; [2] in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel Kerguelen, [3] pronounced [kɛʁɡelɛn]), also known as the Desolation Islands ( Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged in the southern Indian Ocean. They are among the most isolated places on Earth, located more than 3,300 kilometres (1,800 nautical miles) from Madagascar. The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands, Amsterdam and Saint Paul islands, and France's Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district. The Kerguelen Islands form an emerged part of the submerged Kerguelen Plateau, which has a total area nearing 949,000km 2 (366,000sqmi). [22] The plateau was built by volcanic eruptions associated with the Kerguelen hotspot, and now lies on the Antarctic Plate. [23] I ought to be able to find something to criticize about it, but I can’t. Sorry, nothing but uncritical adoration here. The wildlife is particularly vulnerable to introduced species; one particular problem has been cats. The main island is the home of a well-established feral cat population, descended from ships' cats. [31] They survive on sea birds and the feral rabbits that were introduced to the islands. There are also populations of wild sheep ( Ovis orientalis orientalis) and reindeer. 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. Various veins and extrusions of lava such as trachytes, trachyphonolites, and phonolites are common all over the islands.

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. a b Headland, Robert K., ed. (2018). Historical Antarctic Sealing Industry. Scott Polar Research Institute. Cambridge University. ISBN 978-0-901021-26-7. One such natural phenomenon is a unique basalt formation situated on a tiny peninsula near the northern extremity of Loranchet Peninsula on Grande Terre (see map). It was first discovered in January 1774 by the navigator Chevalier Kerguelen-Trémarec on board Le Roland, during his second expedition to the region. On his charts, Kerguelen named the structure "Le Portail" (en. portal or gate).Despite the weather not being on our side, we still had a great time exploring by kayak and enjoying the peace and quiet of the area. How to get to Desolation Sound by Kayak Visit Infoclimat Europe for today's hour-by-hour report of temperature, wind-chill factor, rainfall, relative humidity, dew point, average wind speed, barometric pressure, and visibility at Port-aux-Français. Archives of past weather statistics are also available, searchable by date. Flora & Fauna On October 28, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of the Kerguelen Islands. Grande Terre (French for “large land”) is the most sizeable in the island group. Its steep fjords and peninsulas are ringed by hundreds of smaller islands, which bring the archipelago’s total land area to 7215 square kilometers (2,786 square miles). In 1979, the TAAF issued a 2.70-franc air mail stamp (48 x 36 mm in size), engraved by Pierre Béquet, depicting the HMS Terror ship sailing past the Arch of Kerguelen in 1840.