Otherwise there are place gains for both Vincent Riou (PRB) and Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) who both rise one place each to seventh and eighth at the expense of Yann Eliès (Generali) who has lost out in the north, meantime.

Less than 900 miles from the Kerguelens, the leaders are going to have to start planning how to get by them.  Although the islands only stretch out over a surface the size of Corsica, it is the extension of the continental shelf that poses the problem.  Via the north and the route becomes that much longer, in the corridor formed by Heard Island, 230 miles to the SSE… Located in the Howling Fifties, the Kerguelens are practically unspoilt. 

Since 1950 there have been scientists stationed at the Port-aux-Français centre  (Morbihan Gulf in the east)… Then, there are the petrels, albatrosses, sea-lions, seals, sea elephants and penguins. There are no trees and a glacier slides down the mossy plains, which are swept by icy winds throughout the year. 

A desolate land, as Yves Joseph de Kerguelen said in 1772…