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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    kilometres (1,800 nautical miles) from Madagascar. The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands, Amsterdam and Saint Paul islands, and France's Scattered...
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    Dumont d'Urville disembarked on the Dumoulin Islands, off the coast of Adélie Land, where they took some mineral, algae, and animal samples, erected the...
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    islands as well as a claim in Antarctica. Excluding the district of Adélie Land, where French sovereignty is effective de jure by French law, but where...
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    sections of border with the rest of Spain (separated by Andorra). Excluding Adélie Land. Via French Guiana. Border cuts through rock in Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
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    for Adélie Land (136°E to 142°E), which divides the territory into Western AAT (the larger portion) and Eastern AAT. It is bounded by Queen Maud Land in...
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    sense, Wilkes Land extends further East to Point Alden in 142°02' E, thereby including Adélie Land, which is claimed by France. Wilkes Land is named after...
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    total of 663,336 km2 (256,115 sq mi) in the French Republic (excluding Adélie Land in Antarctica where sovereignty is suspended since the signing of the...
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    Georgia, and has limited international recognition. Excludes claim on Adélie Land in Antarctica. Data are from the CIA. The CIA gives the areas of the...
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    Île Harbour Île Agot Île des Landes Ébihens Archipelago Île du Guesclin Les Tintiaux Islands of Cancale: Île des Landes Île des Rimains Île Aganton Bréhat...
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    using the dogs to push rapidly from the expedition's base in Adélie Land towards Victoria Land. After Ninnis and a sledge carrying most of the food disappeared...
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  • Emperor-Land penguins. He and his best friends, Bo and Atticus, follow one of Mumble's friends, Ramón, leader of the Amigos, to Adélie-Land, which is...
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    is an abandoned French research base at Cape Margerie on the coast of Adélie Land, Antarctica, as well as the name of the adjacent anchorage. The site...
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  • Adelie or Adélie may refer to: Adélie Land, a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica Adelie Land meteorite, a meteorite discovered on December...
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  • Territories comprises all of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands except Adélie Land which is included in the ISO 3166 country name Antarctica. The Holy See...
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  • (1892–present) Île Saint-Paul (in 1843 but abandoned) (1892–present) Adélie Land (1840–present) (sheltering one of two French Bases in Antarctica, the...
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  • uninhabited French Southern and Antarctic Lands, which include the claimed Adélie Land on the Antarctic mainland, the Crozet Islands and the Kerguelen Islands...
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  • but strictly speaking are not part of the United Kingdom. Excluding Adélie Land. This territory is not sovereign but is an overseas territory of France...
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  • Mirage Island (category Islands of Adélie Land)
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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 Adelie Land, performing ionospheric...
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    Dumont d'Urville Station (category Outposts of Adélie Land)
    in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition...
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