In 1874, sailors released rabbits on the Kerguelen Islands as emergency food; the invasion reshaped coastal vegetation and later altered plant communities on the central plateau

Kerguelen is one of the most remote places on the planet, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean with a few dozen native vascular plant species and almost no mammals native to its shores. In 1874, visitors on an expedition to observe that year's transit of Venus released a few rabbits from Europe on Grande Terre, the archipelago's main island, intending them as a future food source for later expeditions.

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