page_title: Îles Leygues
section_title: Important Bird Area
hierarchical_section_title: Îles Leygues / Ecology / Important Bird Area
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte des Kerguelen-Archipels im südlichen Indischen Ozean English: Map of the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean
context_page_description: Les Îles Leygues or the Leygues Islands, occasionally called « les Îles Swain », are a group of small islands and islets that are part of the subantarctic Kerguelen archipelago, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean.
  They were named after Georges Leygues, a French politician and Minister of Marine. They are important as a breeding site for seabirds and fur seals.
context_section_description: The islands have been identified as a 24 km² Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International.  Five or six pairs of wandering albatrosses breed there as well as unknown numbers of northern giant petrels and Kerguelen shags.  Other petrels may also nest on the islands but data are lacking because the only available information is from offshore observations.
caption: Map of Kerguelen with the Leygues Islands as Îles Swain
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