Dumont d’Urville Station

The Dumont d'Urville Station is a French scientific station in on Île des Pétrels, in Adélie Land. It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition landed on in the at the northeast end of the archipelago on January 21, 1840.
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  • Scientific research base
  • …has 30 residents
  • Description: antarctic base in Archipelago of Pointe Géologie, France
  • Also known as
    “Dumont d’Urville /Fr./”
    “Dumont d’Urville Station (France)”
    “Dumont d’Urville, Base”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pétrel Island and Bernard Island.
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Dumont d’Urville Station

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Latitude
-66.66667° or 66° 40′ south
Longitude
140° east
Open location code
3R5282M2+82
Geo­Names ID
6620749
Wiki­data ID
Q403901

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Dumont d’Urville Station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محطة دومون دو أورفيل”
  • Basque: “Dumont d’Urville basea”
  • Cebuano: “Dumont d’Urville Station”
  • Chinese: “迪蒙·迪爾維爾基地”
  • Chinese: “迪蒙·迪维尔站”
  • Czech: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Czech: “Polární stanice Dumont d’Urville”
  • Czech: “Základna Dumont d’Urville”
  • Dutch: “Dumont d’Urville Station”
  • Dutch: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Dutch: “Dumont d’Urvillezee”
  • Dutch: “Station Dumont d’Urville”
  • French: “base antarctique Dumont-d’Urville”
  • French: “Base antarctique Dumont-d’Urville”
  • French: “Base Dumont d’Urville”
  • German: “Base Dumont d’Urville”
  • German: “Dumont-d’Urville-Station”
  • German: “Port Martin”
  • German: “Station Dumont-d’Urville”
  • Indonesian: “Dumont d’Urville Station”
  • Indonesian: “Stasiun Dumont d’Urville”
  • Italian: “base Dumont d’Urville”
  • Italian: “Base Dumont d’Urville”
  • Italian: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Japanese: “デュモン・デュルヴィル基地”
  • Korean: “뒤몽 뒤르빌 기지”
  • Latvian: “Dimondirvila”
  • Latvian: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Lithuanian: “Diumono d’Urvilio stotis”
  • Lithuanian: “Dumont d’Urville stotis”
  • Macedonian: “Димон Дирвил”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dumont d’Urville Station”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dumont d’Urville-stasjonen”
  • Norwegian: “Dumont d’Urville-stasjonen (Frankrike)”
  • Norwegian: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Polish: “Dumont d‘ Urville”
  • Polish: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Russian: “Дюмон д’Юрвиль”
  • Russian: “Дюмон-д’Юрвиль”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dumont d’Urville (antarktička baza)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Slovak: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Spanish: “Base Dumont d’Urville”
  • Spanish: “Base Dumont D’Urville”
  • Spanish: “Estacion dumont d’urville”
  • Spanish: “Estación Dumont d’Urville”
  • Swedish: “Dumont d’Urville”
  • Turkish: “Dumont d’Urville İstasyonu”
  • Ukrainian: “Дюмон Дюрвіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Дюмон-Дюрвіль”

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