HMS Volage
... that in 1874 the British corvette HMS Volage transported a party of astronomers to the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean to observe the transit of Venus?
... that in 1874 the British <a href="./Corvette" id="mwCTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Corvette">corvette</a> <b id="mwCT0"><a href="./HMS_Volage_(1869)" id="mwCT4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="HMS Volage (1869)">HMS <i id="mwCT8">Volage</i></a></b> transported a party of astronomers to the <a href="./Kerguelen_Islands" id="mwCUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kerguelen Islands">Kerguelen Islands</a> in the southern <a href="./Indian_Ocean" id="mwCUE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a> to observe the <a href="./Transit_of_Venus" id="mwCUI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Transit of Venus">transit of Venus</a>?