Rocher du Douanier
| Rocher du Douanier | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 49 ′ S , 142 ° 4 ′ E | |
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The Rocher du Douanier ( French for customs officer rock ), also known as Douanier Rock , is a small and rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located immediately east of Point Alden , which separates the Adélieland from the Georg V coast .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition led by André-Franck Liotard (1905–1982), which lasted from 1949 to 1951, discovered the island and gave it the allegorical name based on its geographical location.
Web links
- Douanier Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Douanier Rock on geographic.org (English)