Cape Jules
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 44 ′ S , 140 ° 55 ′ E | |
| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Lake D'Urville | |
Cape Jules ( French Cap Jules ) is a rocky cape on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 5 km west of the tongue of the Zélée glacier . At its northern end is the Baie de l'Évelyne .
Participants in the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837–1940) discovered it. The expedition leader Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) named it after his son. The cape was mapped between 1912 and 1913 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition and in 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931), both under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Participants in a French Antarctic expedition (1950–1952) established an astronomical observation station here in 1951.
Web links
- Cape Jules in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Jules on geographic.org (English)