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Initially only a temporary settlement for whalers and sealers, the Kerguelen Islands saw an influx of inhabitants in the 1850s and 1860s from the French colony of La Réunion. The commencement of the Second World War saw another influx of inhabitants, the majority of which were French Jews fleeing for the approaching German Army.

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  • History of the Kerguelen Islands
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  • Initially only a temporary settlement for whalers and sealers, the Kerguelen Islands saw an influx of inhabitants in the 1850s and 1860s from the French colony of La Réunion. The commencement of the Second World War saw another influx of inhabitants, the majority of which were French Jews fleeing for the approaching German Army.
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  • Initially only a temporary settlement for whalers and sealers, the Kerguelen Islands saw an influx of inhabitants in the 1850s and 1860s from the French colony of La Réunion. The commencement of the Second World War saw another influx of inhabitants, the majority of which were French Jews fleeing for the approaching German Army. With the independence of the Republic of the Southern Indian Ocean Islands in 1956, the archipelago's capital of Port-aux-Français became the capital city of the newly-founded nation. As the Republic's largest and most populous archipelago it grew into a modern and relatively accessible archipelago, and a rich one at that after the discovery of oil fields.
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