Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Vendee Globe : crossing Amsterdam and Kerguelen islands longitude

Positions 11/12/2012 09:00 UTC

Indian ocean islands overview
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Kerguelen island also called 'the islands of desolation'
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Cheminées Poujoulat (the previous boat of Bernard Stamm) at the Vendee Globe 2008
was forced to run aground onto the rocks at the Kerguelen Islands
(photo Taaf, Thibault Vergoz)

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 The spectacular caldera (crater lake) on Saint Paul island (other picture

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 Amsterdam island
land of the Amsterdam albatross, the rarest albatross in the world.

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