Rocher du Débarquement
| Rocher du Débarquement | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 36 '18.6 " S , 140 ° 3' 51.4" E | |
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| length | 175 m | |
| width | 55 m | |
| surface | 0.7 ha | |
The Rocher du Débarquement (roughly translated from French for landing rock ) is an ice-free and 175 m long reef rock off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It marks the northern end of the Dumoulin Islands in the Géologie archipelago .
Participants of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) led by polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville landed here in January 1840 and gave him his name on the occasion of this event. The rock was identified on the basis of aerial photographs taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and measurements by French scientists between 1950 and 1952.
At the suggestion of France, the rock has been under the special protection of the Antarctic Treaty as a Historic Site HSM-81 since 2006 .
Web links
- Débarquement rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Débarquement Rock on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ HSM 81: Landing Rock in the Antarctic Protected Areas Database on the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat website (English, Spanish, French, Russian), accessed on November 16, 2019.