Kerguelen Islands (Concert of Europe)

The Kerguelen Islands (French: Îles Kerguelen) are an archipelago and an overseas province of. They're a remote archipelago in the, about equidistant from , and , which consists of a main island (La Grande Terre) surrounded by a number of small islets. Although not permanently inhabited, other remote French islands in the Indian Ocean (the Crozet Islands and the St. Paul and Amsterdam islands) are administered as parts of Kerguelen.

Originally uninhabited, they were settled over the course of several decades by French sailors and fishers, which used the islands as a basis for fishing and whaling activities. The economy of the colony still relies on these sectors today, but more recently, a strong mining industry has developed. The perceived remoteness and isolation of the islands has led them to become quite famous in popular culture, and they figure on quite a few works of fiction, most famously E. A. Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.