The Second voyage of Kerguelen was an expedition of the

French Navy The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ...

to the southern Indian Ocean conducted by the 64-gun ship of the line ''Roland'', the 32-gun frigate ''Oiseau'', and the corvette ''Dauphine'', under Captain Kerguelen. The aims of the expedition were to confirm the findings of the

First voyage of Kerguelen The first voyage of Kerguelen was an expedition of the French Navy to the southern Indian Ocean conducted by the fluyts ''Fortune'' and ''Gros Ventre'', under Lieutenant Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec. The aims of the expedition were to s ...

, returning the

Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large ...

and exploring what was thought to be a peninsula of a southern continent. The expedition, prepared with better equipment but less suitable ships than the first, led to the recognition that Kerguelen's southern continent was actually a barren archipelago. Upon his return, Kerguelen was court-martialed, and expelled from the Navy for having brought his mistress aboard his ship.

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