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    Adélie Land (French: Terre Adélie [tɛʁ adeli]) or Adélie Coast is a claimed territory of France located on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from...
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    from an area of the continent which had been named "terre Adélie", French for Adélie Land, itself named for Dumont d'Urville's wife, Adèle. The bird...
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    along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville after his wife. Adélie Land (about...
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  • Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition. It was named after Adélie Land and it was the first meteorite found in Antarctica. Only one fragment...
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    Charcot Station in Adélie Land. The ship Commandant Charcot of the French Navy spent nine months of 1949/50 at the coast of Adélie Land, performing ionospheric...
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  • This is a list of rock formations in the French Antarctic territory of Adélie Land. Bizeux Rock is a rocky island 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 km) long lying...
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    Following is a list of glaciers of Adélie Land in Antarctica. This list may not reflects recently named glaciers in Adélie Land. 66°45′S 139°55′E / 66.750°S...
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    Port-aux-Français). A narrow sector of the enormous Antarctic ice mass, Adélie Land has an extreme polar climate, within the coldest continent on earth,...
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    flag representing the overseas territory of France consisting of Adélie Land (Terre Adélie), the Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet), the Kerguelen Islands (Îles...
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  • as Adélie [citation needed], 1798 – 8 May 1842) was the wife of French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, after whom Adélie Land, Adele Island, Adélie penguin...
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