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CROZET ISLANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 520 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROZET ISLANDS , an uninhabited See also:

group in the See also:Indian Ocean, in 46°-47° S. and 51° E. They are mountainous, with summits from 4000 to 5000 ft. high, and are disposed in two divisions—Penguin or Inaccessible, Hog, See also:Possession and See also:East Islands; and the Twelve Apostles. Like Kerguelen, and other clusters in these See also:southern See also:waters, they appear to be of igneous formation; but owing to the See also:bleak See also:climate and their inaccessible See also:character they are seldom visited, and have never been explored since their See also:discovery in 1772 by See also:Marion-Dufresne, after one of whose See also:officers they are named. Possession, the highest, has a snowy See also:peak said toexceed 5000 ft. Hog See also:Island takes its name from the animals which were here let loose by an See also:English See also:captain many years ago, but have since disappeared. Rabbits burrow in the heaps of See also:scoria on the slopes of the mountains.

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