Engineers spent a hectic Christmas and New Year on the main island of the Kerguelen group in the Indian Ocean, working against the clock to install the latest Galileo sensor station - measuring regional signal accuracy so corrections can be made if needed.
There is no airport on this desolate, sub-Antarctic French territory, and a boat calls only four times per year.
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