Mount D'Urville, Antarctica
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Mount D’Urville is the ice-covered peak rising to 1085 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on
Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the ...
in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...
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Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
. 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 Crown Peak. German-British mapping in 1996.


Map


Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.


References


SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Mountains of Trinity Peninsula {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub