France has annexed the Kergueleo Islands, in the Indian Ocean, 80 9 soath latitude, 67° longitude. The chief of the group ia better known as Desolation Island. It is uninhabited, and believed to be uninhabitable. The island is said to have no positive value, but it has a possible strategic value, because of its situation between the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. It has been affirmed by some who have visited it that there are indications of coal there.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 28 July 1893, Page 7
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80Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 28 July 1893, Page 7
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