Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Dumont-d'Urville, Base (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dumont-d'Urville, Base (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Station
This name originates from France. It is part of the France Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Située dans la partie centrale de l'archipel de Pointe-Géologie ; nom donné en l'honneur de Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), capitaine de vaisseau, commandant l'expédition française au pôle austral et dans l'Océanie (1837-1840), qui découvrit la terre Adélie le 19 ou le 20 janvier 1840.
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