The Kerguelen Islands are devoid of a permanent population, but are nonetheless interlinked to past and current human activities that have shaped their subantarctic landscape. In the past decades, the archipelago has become a French outpost for scientific research where scientists, support staff, research assistants, and travelers assemble during temporary missions. In this article, I present the spatial formation of islands as relational in order to explore how the material and the cultural converge to make the Kerguelen Islands a place of both mundane practice and global interconnection. These spatialities intertwine the features of the landscape with pre-departure preparations, animal encounters, scientific rigour, daily routines, and past human activities. I advance these narratives by analyzing 18 blogs of French sojourners who have spent extensive time on the Kerguelen Islands. I ultimately give islands without a permanent population a character unlike that of isolation and contemplation as is usually attributed to cold-water islands of the (sub) polar seas.

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克格伦群岛的科学与文化：南极群岛空间形成的一种相关方法

克格伦群岛没有常住人口，但仍然与塑造其亚南极景观的过去和现在的人类活动息息相关。在过去的几十年中，该群岛已成为法国科学研究的前哨基地，科学家，支持人员，研究助理和旅行者在临时任务期间聚集在一起。在本文中，我提出了相互联系的岛屿的空间形态，以探讨物质和文化如何融合，使克格伦群岛成为世俗的实践和全球相互联系的地方。这些空间将景观特征与出发前的准备工作，动物相遇，严谨的科学，日常工作和过去的人类活动交织在一起。我通过分析18个法国寄居者的博客来推进这些叙述，这些博客在克格伦岛上度过了很长时间。我最终赋予没有永久居民的岛屿一个与孤立和沉思不同的特征，因为通常将其归因于（亚）极地海洋的冷水岛。