Crozet Islands, FR
The Crozet Islands are a sub-Antarctic
The Crozet Islands are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne discovered the Crozet Islands in 1772. In 1963, the permanent research station Alfred Faure opened at Port Alfred on Île de la Possession. The Crozet Islands were declared a nature reserve in 1938. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization has listening equipment on the island and detected what is believed to be an underwater, non-nuclear explosion off the coast of Argentina in 2017.
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