Kerguelen

These five ships at once anchored in the best positions consistent with their own safety to help us; the "Kerguelen" a little on our starboard quarter, and the "Champlain" right astern with our steel hawsers on board and two anchors down.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

It was the Erebus, sent off like Darwin’s Beagle on a round-the-world charting expedition, from which Hooker went ashore on Tasmania, New Zealand, and an interesting little nub called Kerguelen Island, halfway between Antarctica and nowhere.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

It was the Erebus, sent off like Darwin’s Beagle on a round-the-world charting expedition, from which Hooker went ashore on Tasmania, New Zealand, and an interesting little nub called Kerguelen Island, halfway between Antarctica and nowhere.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The only parts of the continental USA with land antipodes are a small patch in Montana, opposite Kerguelen Island (which also straddles the border into Canada), and two small patches of Colorado which are opposite the remote Île Amsterdam and Île Saint-Paul.

I guess you could call this the NATO meme nwhyte 2010

Two linked ones -- "The Polynesian History of the Kerguelen Islands" and "The Institute of Antarctic Archeology and Protolinguistics" -- exhibit a pulpish HPL vibe elevated to art by the subtle language and plotting.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

Here Cook received news of the discovery of Kerguelen and of the Marion and Crozet Islands.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

A course was laid for the newly discovered islands -- Kerguelen, Marion, and the Crozets -- and it was proved that they had nothing to do with the great southern land.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

Iles Kerguelen: total - 7,215 sq km; land - 7,215 sq km; water - 0 sq km

Area 2008

Short tussock grass Poa cookii, with cushions of the herb Colobanthus kerguelensis are present in coastal areas, with Kerguelen cabbage Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella selago cushions in established moraines and valleys up to 200 m.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia 2008

On the McDonald Islands, tussock grass Poa cookii is common on eastern slopes and lower parts of the plateau, while cushions of Azorella selago cover higher areas, with Kerguelen cabbage Pringlea antiscorbutica, and dwarf shrub Acaena magellanica.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia 2008