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d'Urville Island

Place ID: 3239
Name ID: 108399

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

• D'Urville Island (Russia)
• D'Urville Island (United States of America)
• d'Urville, isla (Argentina)
• D'Urville, Isla (Chile)

Narrative

off Trinity Peninsula, separated by Larsen Channel from Joinville Island to SE, was roughly charted on its W coast by Bransfield in February, 1820 (Bransfield, chart, [1820b]); sighted by FAE, 1837-40, on 27 February 1838 but thought to be part of Joinville Island (d'Urville, 1842, p.148); shown to be a separate island by SwAE in December 1902 and named Île d'Urville (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904c, map p.232-33), d'Urville-Insel (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 1, p.64) or d'Urville Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map), after Capt. (later Adm.) Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), of the French Navy, Commander of FAE, 1837-40. Isla d'Urville (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.329; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.108). d'Urville-Eiland (Nordenskjöld and others, 1907, p.24). d'Urville Island (BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921; APC, 1955, p.9; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1973). d'Urville Ö (HA chart 1928). d'Urville-Öya (Risting, 1929, map p.51). d'Urvilleöen (Aagaard, 1930, end map). d'Urvilleøya (Aagaard, 1944, p.32). The island was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1946-54. D Urville Island (USAAF chart (AP-38), 1947). Isla Enrique Mac Iver (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.201 and end map). Ostrov Dyurvil' (Soviet Union. BSE, 1950, map following p.484). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.

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