D'Urville Monument
| D'Urville Monument | ||
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| height | 575 m | |
| location | Joinville Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 25 ′ 8 ″ S , 56 ° 18 ′ 57 ″ W | |
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The D'Urville Monument is a strikingly conical and 575 m high rock spur on the southwestern end of Joinville Island in front of the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula .
A 120 hectare ice-free area at the D'Urville Monument is designated by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (AQ067). There is a breeding colony of 10,000 pairs of Adelie penguins and 670 pairs of Gentoo penguins .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him during his Antarctic expedition (1839–1843). He named it after the French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842).
Web links
- D'Urville Monument in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- D'Urville Monument on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ D'Urville Monument, Joinville Island (AQ067) , datasheet on the BirdLife International website, accessed July 24, 2018.