Landscape of the Kerguelen archipelago, in the Gulf of Morbihan, south of the Monts du Milieu. Image: Camille Lin These are very special French territories, as much for their biodiversity as for their administrative system, whose specific features reflect these...
The aluminium barge Rallier du Baty is registered in Marseille like its mother ship the Marion Dufresne II. Image: DR The French Southern and Antarctic Territories lacked a multi-purpose vessel to unload equipment, men and women and which could adapt to the...