Dumoulin Islands

66°37′S 140°4′E / 66.617°S 140.067°E / -66.617; 140.067AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

The Dumoulin Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the Antarctic region at the northeast end of the Geologie Archipelago, 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi) north of Astrolabe Glacier Tongue. On 22 January 1840, a French Antarctic expedition led by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 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 Mawson. The island group was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and recharted by a French Antarctic Expedition under André-Frank Liotard, 1949–51.^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

• (in French) Map of Pointe Géologie archipelago, site of Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine^{[permanent dead link]}
• (in French) IGN Map of Pointe Géologie archipelago, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
• (in French) The Dumoulin islands and Débarquement Rock in the Pilote de Terre Adélie, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
• (in French) The Dumoulin islands by Dubouzet in 1840, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Dumoulin Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.