Lake D'Urville
Coordinates: 66 ° 0 ′ S , 141 ° 0 ′ E
The D'Urville Sea (also known as Dumont-d'Urville Lake ) is a section of the Southern Ocean . It is mainly located off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . To the east the D'Urville-See borders directly on the Somow-See , to the west indirectly on the Mawsonsee .
The Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson named it in 1912 as part of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) after the French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842).
Web links
- D'Urville Sea in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 463 (English).