The Dumoulin Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the

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region at the northeast end of the Geologie Archipelago, north of

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. On 22 January 1840, a

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led by Captain

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, aboard his flagship ''Astrolabe'', landed a party on one of these islands, Rocher du Débarquement. Dumont d'Urville named the group of islands in honor of the

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of his expedition, Clément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin. The islands were roughly charted by the

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, 1911–14, under

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. The island group was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy

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, 1946–47, and recharted by a French Antarctic Expedition under André-Frank Liotard, 1949–51.

References

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Map of Pointe Géologie archipelago, site of Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine
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IGN Map of Pointe Géologie archipelago, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
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The Dumoulin islands and Débarquement Rock in the ''Pilote de Terre Adélie'', site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
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The Dumoulin islands by Dubouzet in 1840, site of Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, Documents, Historic Sites and Monuments
Islands of Adélie Land {{AdélieLand-geo-stub

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