D'Urville Island, Antarctica

D'Urville Island is the northernmost island of the Joinville Island group in Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 16 relations: Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Sound, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Bransfield Strait, British Antarctic Survey, Island, Joinville Island, Joinville Island group, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Juncal Island, Otto Nordenskjöld, South Shetland Islands, Swedish Antarctic Expedition, Trinity Peninsula, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee.

2. Islands of the Joinville Island group

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Antarctic Sound

The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Antarctic Treaty System

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea (Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Joinville Island

Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east–west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound. D'Urville Island, Antarctica and Joinville Island are islands of the Joinville Island group.

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Joinville Island group

Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound.

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Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.

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Juncal Island

Juncal Island is an island belonging to Uruguay, located where the Uruguay River empties into the Río de la Plata, a bit above the Uruguayan town of Carmelo.

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Otto Nordenskjöld

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.

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South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of.

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Swedish Antarctic Expedition

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen.

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Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).

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See also

Islands of the Joinville Island group

• Beagle Island (Antarctica)
• Brash Island
• D'Urville Island, Antarctica
• Danger Islands
• Dundee Island
• Earle Island
• Joinville Island
• Jonassen Island
• Paulet Island
• Wideopen Islands

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Urville_Island,_Antarctica

Also known as Cape Juncal, Français Rocks, Harris Rock, Hope Island (Graham Land), Medley Rocks, Montrol Rock, Northtrap Rocks, Southtrap Rock, Turnbull Point.

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