LINKS ABOUT SOUTHERN AND POLAR LANDS

 

Southern French Territories, polar lands and remote islands, (more or less) official sites :

 - The Polar (french) Institute (official site of the former IFRTP, officialy became the French Polar Institute Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV))  
- The French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) (official site) 
- The French Ministry of the oversea territories (not a lot of things...) 
- The AMAPOF, association for the former winterers in the southern and polar french lands, for the "former fighters", a very complete bookshop section and a une map of the Kerguelen's huts (partial list) 
- Transpolaire, webring and very large site about the "polar meaning of life" , very complete and more particulary about the airplane activities around the poles. The following sections are particularly interesting :
    - The "Pourquoi Pas" project in Antarctica (I. Autissier)
    - The repair of Port-Jeanne-d'Arc (Kerguelen)
    - The change of the name of the IFRTP

Southern French Territories, personnal sites :

 

Kerguelen :

- The New WebSite à Phil (Ker12, 1962)  
- Escapade aux Kerguelen 
- The site of the 47th research expedition in Kerguelen (1997) 
- The site of the 18th research expedition in Kerguelen (1968) 
- Correspondence between a french school and a military of Ker51 (2001) 
- Letters from Kerguelen (ker51, 2001), page 1 and page 2 (literary site) 
- A beautiful diaporama on Kerguelen, non-identified owner 
- A project of the construction of a sailing boat to go to Kerguelen (retombée de sombreros, that's the (strange?) name of the sailing boat...) 
- Page from the education academy website of la Réunion island, which seams to be in relation with the mysterious ouaibe/Kerguelen (see above)
- Story of a english journalist from the Times about his 6 months staying in Kerguelen, (2000)
- Page from a switz site about Kerguelen, in german (I don't know exactly what is it about, because of my bad level in german language)
- Page about Kerguelen from a site about postcards from the antarctic area (Postcards from Antarctica)
- For Mickael Kracke (from www.kerguelen.de, see above), the dream became true : sailing to îles Kerguelen islands. It's very well illustrated at www.expedition.kerguelen.de, but only in german at the moment

 

Amsterdam island :

- The site of the 45th research expedition in Amsterdam island (1994) and 
- The site of Cyril Szakolczai, fauna and flora photos of the Amsterdam island (1994) 
- The site of the (faboulous) 51th research expedition in Amsterdam island (2000) 

 

Crozet islands :

- The site of Sylvain le Moal (31th research expedition, 1994) 

 

Southern Territories :

- Personnal site about the French Southern Territories 
- Site about the French Southern Territories (turn-over of the boats and philately) 
- The Journey of Edouard in the French Southern Territories  
- Informations texts about the French Southern Territories (from Serge Vergonjeanne). This texts seems to come from the AMAPOF's magazine
- Rencontres australes (austral meetings) (photographs : Jacques Mouriès ; texts : Pierre Gradoz). It is a project of a book ?

Southern and polar lands, philately :

- Philately of the French Southern Territories, very complete about the philately in the southern french territories since 1949 
- Polar Philately (sale) 
- Taafilatélie, could be perfect if some scans hadn't been take on other sites without the autorization of the webmasters (as the first of this list) 
- Polar philately (Alain Georges) 
- Philately, discoverers of the French Southern Territories 

Southern and polar lands, scientific sites (generalities) :

- Flora on Kerguelen and Crozet islands 
- University of Saint-Etienne (site about the french southern territories, more particularly about geology) 
- Site of the french agronomy institute (INRA), about the armor base (Kerguelen) 
- Pour la science n°285 (july 2001) : life on the antarctic islands 
- Site of the exhibition "the polar adventure" (mnhn), 1997 

Southern and polar lands, miscellaneous sites :

- The mysterious Ouaibe/Kerguelen... 
- Site of the southern patroling boat Albatros (french navy), index and the page about Kerguelen 
- Immatriculation of the vehicles in the oversea countries (as kerguelen)  
- Expedition of the french Military Group of High Mountain (GMHM) on the Ross mount (Kerguelen), end of 2001 - begin of 2002 :
    - on the site of the Glénat Press group 
    - on the site of the FFME (French Federation of Mountain and Climbing) 
- Vagabond, northeast passage (project of a former winterer in Kerguelen, ker44, 1994)  

Southern and polar lands, commercial sites :

- Site of the transboréales bookhouse and a page from the book of Christophe Houdaille about Kerguelen  
- Grand Nord Grand Large, travel tour organization in polar countries  
- Outre-mer bookshop , sale of marine maps (Kerguelen) of the SHOM (Oceanography and Hydrography Section in French Navy)   
- National (French) Geographic Institute (IGN), sale of the maps of the French Southern Territories 

Southern and polar lands, sites in english :

- Paul Carroll's Home Page, about all the subantarctic islands, very complete 
- www.kerguelen.de, links site very complete about Kerguelen islands, in german, english and now in french   
- English site about the french southern territories, the page about Kerguelen 
- Philatelic site on the bird stamps, the page about the stamps in the French Southern Territories 
- Penguins around the world, the page about the French Southern Territories 
- International Penguin Conservation Web Site, the page about Kerguelen 
- Site the owner of the domain name (www.kerguelen.org), a dutch