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D'Urville (other)
D'Urville or d'Urville is a French family name, notably that of explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790 – 1842) who gave his name to many places and objects, especially in Antarctica and New Zealand. It may also refer to: People * D'Urville Martin (1939 – 1984), American actor and director in film and television Places ;Antarctica * D'Urville Island, Antarctica * D'Urville Monument * D'Urville Sea * D'Urville Wall * Dumont d'Urville Station * Mount D'Urville, Antarctica ;New Zealand * D'Urville River * D'Urville Island, New Zealand * Mount D'Urville Other * French aviso Dumont d'Urville, class of French naval ships See also * ''Durvillaea ''Durvillaea'' is a genus of large brown algae in the monotypic family Durvillaeaceae. All members of the genus are found in the southern hemisphere, including Australia, New Zealand, South America, and various subantarctic islands. ''Durvillaea' ...'', genus of brown algae known as bull kelp * Durville (other) {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as d'Urville Island in New Zealand. Childhood Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau in Lower Normandy. His father, Gabriel Charles François Dumont, sieur d’Urville (1728–1796), Bailiff of Condé-sur-Noireau, was, like his ancestors, responsible to the court of Condé. His mother Jeanne Françoise Victoire Julie (1754–1832) came from Croisilles, Calvados, and was a rigid and formal woman from an ancient family of the rural nobility of Lower Normandy. The child was weak and often sickly. After the death of his father when he was six, his mother's brother, the Abbot of Croisilles, played the part of his father and from 1798 took charge of his education. The Abbot taugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville Martin
D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor in both film and television. He appeared in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre. He also appeared in two unaired pilots of what would become '' All in the Family'' as Lionel Jefferson. Born in New York City, Martin began his career in the mid-1960s and soon appeared in prominent films such as ''Black Like Me'', '' Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'', and '' Rosemary's Baby''. Martin also directed films in his career, including '' Dolemite'', starring Rudy Ray Moore. Personal life D'Urville Martin was born in New York City in 1939. He had a daughter, Debra, with his first wife, Frances L. Johnson. After their divorce, he married Lillian Ferguson in 1966 and had two more children. Martin died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1984 at the age of 45. Career Martin's first film role was as a speaking-line extra in ''Black Like Me'' (1964). He then had small roles in '' Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville Island, Antarctica
D'Urville Island is an island of Antarctica. It is the northernmost island of the Joinville Island group, long, lying immediately north of Joinville Island, from which it is separated by Larsen Channel. The single island was charted in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it for Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer who discovered land in the Joinville Island group. Burden Passage separates D'Urville Island from Bransfield Island. See also * Composite Antarctic Gazetteer * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands * List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S * Medley Rocks * SCAR * Territorial claims in Antarctica Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and st ... References Islands of the Joinville Island group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville Monument
D'Urville Monument is a conspicuous conical summit, high, at the south-west end of Joinville Island, off the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a British expedition under James Clark Ross between 1839 and 1843. It was named by him for Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville. Important Bird Area The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 10,000 pairs of Adélie penguin The Adélie penguin (''Pygoscelis adeliae'') is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found. It is the most widespread penguin species, and, along with the emperor p ...s and over 670 pairs of gentoo penguins. References * Mountains of Graham Land Landforms of the Joinville Island group Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies {{JoinvilleIsland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville Sea
D'Urville Sea is a sea of the Southern Ocean, north of the coast of Adélie Land, East Antarctica. It is named after the French explorer and officer 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. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his nam .... Seas of the Southern Ocean Adélie Land Antarctic region {{Marine-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville Wall
D'Urville Wall () is a great glacier-cut wall of granite which rises to and forms the north wall of David Glacier near its terminus, in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 The ''Nimrod'' Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three successful expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second expedition to the Antarctic. Its main target, ..., under Ernest Shackleton, and he named this feature for Admiral Jules Dumont d'Urville. References * Rock formations of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumont D'Urville Station
The Dumont d'Urville Station (french: Base antarctique Dumont-d'Urville) is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, Geologie Archipelago, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after exploration, explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition landed on Débarquement Rock in the Dumoulin Islands at the northeast end of the archipelago on January 21, 1840. It is operated by the "French Polar Institute, French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor", a joint operation of French public and para-public agencies. It is the administrative centre of Adélie Land. History A pioneering French Antarctic research station, Port Martin, located east of D'Urville, was destroyed by fire on the night of January 23, 1952, without death or injury. In 1952, a small base was built on Île des Pétrels to study a rookery of emperor penguins. This base was called Base Marret. As the main base Port Martin was a total loss, Base Marret was chosen as overwint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount D'Urville, Antarctica
Mount D’Urville is the ice-covered peak rising to 1085 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Sestrimo Glacier to the east. The peak is named after Captain Jules Dumont d’Urville, leader of the 1837-40 French Antarctic expedition. Location Mount D’Urville is located at , which is 6.15 km southwest of Argentino (Guerrero) Hill, 11.85 km west-northwest of Yarlovo Nunatak Yarlovo Nunatak ( bg, Ярловски нунатак, ‘Yarlovski nunatak’ \'yar-lov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is the rocky hill rising to 739 mKukuryak Bluff, and 19.3 km east-northeast of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville River
The D'Urville River is in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies within the Nelson Lakes National Park and flows north for between the Ella and Mahanga ranges into Lake Rotoroa. It is one of the smaller rivers in the Buller River The Buller River ( mi, Kawatiri) is a river in the South Island of New Zealand. One of the country's longest rivers, it flows for from Lake Rotoiti through the Buller Gorge and into the Tasman Sea near the town of Westport. Within the Bulle ... system. The river was named after the French navigator Jules Dumont d'Urville by Julius von Haast. Brown and rainbow trout can be fished in the D'Urville River. A tramping track runs along the river. References Rivers of the Tasman District Rivers of New Zealand {{Tasman-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Urville Island, New Zealand
D'Urville Island (), Māori name ' ('red heavens look to the south'), is an island in the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville. With an area of approximately , it is the eighth-largest island of New Zealand, and has around 52 permanent residents. The local authority is the Marlborough District Council. History The official name of the island is Rangitoto ki te Tonga / D'Urville Island, with the Māori language name, associated with Kupe, meaning "Red Heavens Look to the South". The island was a traditional source of argillite (''pakohe''), used in the production of stone tools such as adzes during the Archaic period (1300–1500). From the 1600s until the early 1800s, the island was a part of the rohe of Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri. In the present day, the island is within the rohe of Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kuia. Geography The island has a convoluted coastline, as is frequently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount D'Urville
Mount D'Urville is one of the highest points on Auckland Island, one of New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands, and is named after French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville. It rises to a height of 630 m (2099 ft). It stands in the southeast of the main island, overlooking the mouth of Carnley Harbour. The higher peak of Mount Dick Mount Dick is a 705-metre (2313 ft) peak on Adams Island, the second-largest of New Zealand's Auckland Island chain. It is the highest point in the Auckland Islands. Mount Dick is on the rim of an extinct volcano, the crater of which now fo ..., on Adams Island, is visible from it, 12 kilometres to the southwest. References * Anon. (1969, 4th edn). ''Wise's New Zealand Guide''. H. Wise & Co.: Dunedin Durville {{OutlyingNZ-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Aviso Dumont D'Urville
''Dumont d'Urville'' was a of the French Navy, designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. She was built by Ateliers et Chantiers Maritime Sud-Ouest of Bordeaux and launched on 21 March 1931. Service history After the Fall of France ''Dumont d'Urville'' remained under Vichy French control and in September 1940 she was in New Caledonia as a part the Vichy government's attempt to gain control of the French colony. However, the Royal Australian Navy cruiser arrived carrying a Free French temporary governor, which led the Vichy governor to depart aboard ''Dumont d'Urville'' on 25 September. On the night of 16–17 January 1941 ''Dumont d'Urville'' took part in the Battle of Koh Chang. In September 1942 ''Dumont d'Urville'' took part in rescuing survivors from which the had torpedoed and sunk, known as the ''Laconia'' incident. By 1944 ''Dumont d'Urville''s armament had been augmented with the addition of four single-mounted 40 mm anti-aircraft (AA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
