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Its total land area, mostly covered with glaciers, [3] is estimated to be 432,000 square kilometres (167,000 sq mi). [5] The coast of Adélie Land is known for its katabatic winds which push snow and sea ice away from the coast. [3] In a 1915 Science Magazine volume, it was named the "stormiest spot on the face of earth". [6]
The territory includes the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean near 43°S, 67°E, along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France. Adélie Land, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville after his wife, covers about 432,000 km 2 (167,000 sq mi).
The flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Drapeau des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises) is a flag representing the overseas territory of France consisting of Adélie Land (Terre Adélie), the Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet), the Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen), Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (Îles Saint Paul et Amsterdam), and the Scattered Islands (Îles ...
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The Dumont d'Urville Station (French: Base antarctique Dumont-d'Urville) 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 ...
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Before being officially catalogued in 1772, the Kerguelen Islands appear as the "Ile de Nachtegal" on Philippe Buache's 1754 map entitled Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique où se voyent les nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au Sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance ('Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and ...