Crozet Islands is an archipelagic group of small islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. They make up one of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands' five administrative districts. The islands were discovered by the expedition of the French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne aboard Le Mascarin on January 24, 1772. Julien-Marie Crozet, his second in command, claimed the archipelago for France and landed on Île de la Possession. They continued east and reached New Zealand, where Captain Marion and most of the crew were slaughtered and cannibalized by Maori. However, Crozet survived the catastrophe and led the remaining crew back to their Mauritius base. Crozet met James Cook in Cape Town in 1776 at the start of Cook's third voyage and shared the maps of his unfortunate voyage, and when James Cook sailed east, he visited the islands, and named the western group Marion and the eastern group Crozet. These islands are in the Southern Indian Ocean Islands Tundra ecoregion, which includes several sub-Antarctic islands. Plant life in this cold climate is restricted mainly to grasses, mosses and lichens, with insects being the main animal species, together with substantial numbers of seabirds, seals and penguins. There are four species of penguins that live on the Crozet Islands. The most common are the Macaroni Penguin, of which approximately 2 million nests on the islands, and the King Penguin, with 700,000 breeding pairs, half the world's population. Fur Seals and Southern Elephant Seals are among the mammals that inhabit the Crozet Islands, and there have been sightings of Killer Whales being prey for the seals.
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