The Dumoulin Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the
Antarctic
The Antarctic (, ; commonly ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within the Antarctic Circle. It is antipodes, diametrically opposite of the Arctic region around the North Pole.
The Antar ...
region at the northeast end of the
Géologie Archipelago
The Géologie Archipelago, also known as the Pointe Géologie Archipelago, Geology Archipelago or Cape Geology Archipelago, is a small archipelago of rocky islands and rocks close to the north of Cape Géodésie and Astrolabe Glacier Tongue, ext ...
, north of
Astrolabe Glacier Tongue. On 22 January 1840, a
French Antarctic expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
1837–1840
In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...
led by Captain
Jules Dumont d'Urville
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French List of explorers, explorer and French Navy, naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist an ...
, aboard his flagship ''Astrolabe'', landed a party on one of these islands,
Rocher du Débarquement. Dumont d'Urville named the group of islands in honor of the
hydrographer of his expedition, Clément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin.
The islands were roughly charted by the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under
Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...
. The island group was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America (exploration b ...
, 1946–47, and recharted by a French Antarctic Expedition under
André-Frank Liotard, 1949–51.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
* Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the A ...
References
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Map of Pointe Géologie archipelago, site of Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine
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IGN Map of Pointe Géologie archipelago, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
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The Dumoulin islands and Débarquement Rock in the ''Pilote de Terre Adélie'', site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
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The Dumoulin islands by Dubouzet in 1840, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
Islands of Adélie Land
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