[dhosek]

When I was a kid, we had an old Reader’s Digest atlas with historical world maps on the endpapers (Australia was connected to Antarctica on this map). There was an island in the southern Indian Ocean labeled “Los Romeros” which I decided must be the floating island from Doctor Doolittle and I became obsessed with it, finding an island in approximately the same location now named Kerguellen Island. I used to dream of creating a Utopian colony there with its own constructed language, university and socialist economy.

If you look at the Wikipedia article for Kerguellen Island, you will see that I never fulfilled that dream.

[jefurii]

Here's a really interesting sort-of-blog about a trip across the Indian Ocean in 2002. Kerguellen Island is one of the stops. https://www.farvoyager.com/siov/