Dumont d’Urville Station
The Dumont d'Urville Station is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition landed on Débarquement Rock in the Dumoulin Islands at the northeast end of the archipelago on January 21, 1840.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: antarctic base in Archipelago of Pointe Géologie, France
- Also known as: “Dumont d’Urville /Fr./”, “Dumont d’Urville Station (France)”, and “Dumont d’Urville, Base”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pétrel Island.
Pétrel Island
Islet
Photo: Ehquionest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Petrel Island is a rocky island, 900 m long and 45 m in elevation, which lies north-west of Rostand Island and is the largest feature in the cluster of islands at the south-eastern end of Géologie Archipelago.
Dumont d’Urville Station
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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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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