ORIGINAL: Nami Koshino
Kerguelen did have its one World War II moment of fame. In 1940 the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis while ducking British cruisers in the Indian Ocean, hid in one the the channels there to take on water and fix grounding damage. A crewman fell to his death while painting the ships funnel and was later buried ashore in what was called "the southernmost of all German war graves". They described the place as a Godforsaken wilderness.
Very interesting!