Dumoulin Islands (Antarctica)
| Dumoulin Islands | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 37 ′ S , 140 ° 4 ′ E | |
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The Dumoulin Islands are a small group of rocky islands off the coast of Adélieland, East Antarctica . They are 4 km north of the Astrolabe glacier tongue and belong to the Géologie archipelago . These include the Derby Island and the Pasteur Island and, as the northernmost island, the Rocher du Débarquement .
Participants of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of the polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville landed here in January 1840 to collect geological material. During the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson , a rough mapping was carried out. Mawson named the island after d'Urville's magnetologist Clément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin (1811-1858), who carried out measurements of the earth's magnetic field here. Aerial photos were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). French scientists carried out a new mapping on a research expedition that lasted from 1949 to 1951.
Web links
- Dumoulin Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dumoulin Islands on geographic.org (English)