French Southern Territories · Folktales and oral traditions
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French Southern Territories
- Tales
- 1
- Dated records
- 2
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Port-Christmas in northern Kerguelen plays two roles in fiction. Poe’s ship anchors there. Nearly sixty years later, Jules Verne starts a new voyage from the same harbour and follows clues from the earlier novel. The map marks the two books’ shared setting.
Tales in the Atlas
Kerguelen in Poe and Jules Verne
1838 · Edgar Allan Poe · The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket · Chapter XIV
1897 · Jules Verne · Le Sphinx des glaces · Chapter I (English translation)
Tales found across countries
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