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Rallier du Baty remains an area with limited access. Owing to its status as an 'Area restricted to scientific and technical research', visitors to the site are mostly scientists or researchers. The area could also be turned into a nature reserve in the future. Colonization of the
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161:and over half a million pairs of
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138:mountains are cut by large,
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267:"Péninsule Rallier du Baty"
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46:Rallier du Baty Peninsula
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548:Subantarctic peninsulas
427:Île Saint-Lanne Gramont
251:http://www.birdlife.org
203:black-faced sheathbills
149:, with 10,000 pairs of
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442:Péninsule Jeanne d'Arc
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213:Vegetation
136:ice capped
132:geothermal
163:macaronis
69:Kerguelen
62:peninsula
422:Île Howe
417:Île Foch
273:15 March
147:penguins
126:, while
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