Mount d'Urville
| Mount d'Urville | ||
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| height | 1085 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 30 '33 " S , 58 ° 11' 41" W | |
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Mount d'Urville ( French Mont d'Urville ) is a 1085 m (according to Chilean scientists 1070 m ) high mountain in northern Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises north of the eastern end of the Louis Philippe Plateau on the Trinity Peninsula .
Participants in the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) discovered and named him. It is named after the expedition leader Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the French name to English on September 8, 1953.
Web links
- Mount d'Urville in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount d'Urville on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 468 (English).