Mount D'Urville, Antarctica
Location of Trinity Peninsula.
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 63°30′34″S 58°11′38″W / 63.50944°S 58.19389°W, which is 6.15 km southwest of Argentino (Guerrero) Hill, 11.85 km west-northwest of Yarlovo Nunatak, 9.93 km north by west of Kukuryak 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
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