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Flags of the World: French Austral and Antarctic Territories - Flag of the Senior Administrator and coat of arms.
The World Factbook - Entry for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Includes brief statistics for the area.
Atlasgeo: French Southern and Antarctic Lands - Animated GIF image.
The call at the Crozet islands - Illustrated diary of a voyage to the French Southern Lands, with pictures of the landscape and the wildlife.
The Crozet Islands - Brief history and geography of the Crozet Archipelago in the Southern Indian Ocean. Includes some images of Crozet postage stamps.
Matthew Parris: the Kerguelen Columns - Times (London) columns by journalist and former politician Matthew Parris' visit to Kerguelen for 6 months in 2000.
Kerguelen Cabbage - Brief notes on the Kerguelen Cabbage, found in the Sub Antarctic Islands of the Indian Ocean.
Leg 183 Scientific Prospectus - Kerguelen Plateau-Broken Ridge - The ocean drilling program leg 183 penetrated igneous basement to depths of approximately 150 to 200 m at several morphologically and tectonically diverse locations on the LIP, formed by the Kerguelen Plateau/Broken Ridge in the Southeast Indian Ocean. Includes a complete electronic copy of the report, available for download.
Journeys - Kerguelen - Describes two months spent traveling to and working on the Islands. Includes a selection of pictures.
Science News - Drilling Deep into Oceans' Past - Brief article about geophysicists who have drilled several holes deep into the floor of the Indian Ocean, to better understand some of the worlds' most enigmatic rocks.

Wikipedia Articles

List of mammals in French Southern Territories - This is a list of the mammal species recorded in French Southern Territories. There are 19 mammal species in French Southern Territories, of which 0 are critically endangered, 2 are endangered, 0 are vulnerable, and 0 are near-threatened.
Battle of Seminara - The Battle of Seminara, part of the First Italian War, was fought in Calabria on June 28, 1495 between a French garrison in recently-conquered southern Italy and the allied forces of Spain and Naples which were attempting to reconquer these territories. Against the redoubtable combination of gendarmes and Swiss mercenary pikemen in the French force, the allies had only Neapolitan troops of indifferent quality and a small corps of lightly-armed Spanish ...
Amsterdam Albatross - The Amsterdam Albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis) is a huge albatross which breeds only on the Plateau des Tourbières on Amsterdam Island (French Southern Territories) in the southern Indian Ocean. It was only described in 1983, and was thought by some researchers to be a sub-species of the Wandering Albatross.
The Kite - The Kite (French: Le Cerf-volant, Arabic: Tayyara men wara — طيّارة من ورق) is a 2003 Lebanese film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag. It tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl who is forced to marry her cousin over the border of the pre-occupied territories in southern Lebanon (occupied by Israel).