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Adèle Dorothée Dumont d'Urville (née Pépin, also spelled 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 and Cape Pepin are named.
Adèle Dumont d'Urville (1798-1842), née Adèle Dorothée Pépin, également appelée Adélie [réf. nécessaire], était l'épouse de l'explorateur français Jules Dumont d'Urville. Celui-ci a nommé la Terre-Adélie, l'île Adèle et le cap Pépin en l'honneur de sa femme.
Aug 23, 2021 · This paper traces France’s role in the Antarctic from 1840, when explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville discovered the slice of the white continent he named Terre Adélie, to the present day.
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville ( French pronunciation: [ʒyl dymɔ̃ dyʁvil]; 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.
It is due to Frenchman Dumont d’Urville that there is a sliver of French territory amidst the giant Australian claim to Antarctica. He called Adélie Land after his wife, and the Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is named for the land he discovered. Dumont d’Urville was born in Normandy on 25 May 1790 to an aristocratic but poor family.
Adèle Dumont d'Urville (née Adèle Dorothée Pépin, also spelled as Adélie, 1798 – 8 May 1842) was the wife of French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, after whom Adélie Land, Adele Island, Adélie penguin and Cape Pepin are named.
Tragically, Dumont d’Urville, his wife Adèle (née Pépin) and their sixteen-year-old son Jules Eugène Hector would all die in one of the first railway catastrophes in history: derailed at Meudon on 8 May. The fatal railway catastrophe on 8 May 1842, 1842, they were. in which d’Urville and his family died: bronze trapped in their locked.
