The Kerguelen Islands, located in the southern Indian Ocean, are a part of...
they don't belong to anyone
The islands were discovered by the French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec in 1772 and were officially annexed by France in 1893. They are among the most isolated places on Earth with no indigenous inhabitants, but France maintains a permanent presence of 45 to 100 scientists, engineers and researchers.