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Australia's only active volcanoes and a very expensive fish: the secrets of the Kerguelen Plateau

  • Written by James Dell, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Tasmania
Evening light on a Heard Island icescape. The island is part of the Kerguelen Plateau, which is being jointly studied by France and Australia.Matt Curnock

Stretching towards Antarctica lies a hidden natural oasis - a massive underwater plateau created when continents split more than 100 million years ago.

Straddling the Indian and Southern Oceans,...

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