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Dumoulin Islands

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Location
  
Elevation
  
110 m

Archipelago
  
Louisiade Archipelago

Population
  
Uninhabited

Area
  
66 ha

Adjacent body of water
  
Solomon Sea

Dumoulin Islands

The Dumoulin Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the Antarctic region at the northeast end of the Geologie Archipelago, 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi) north of Astrolabe Glacier Tongue. On January 22, 1840, a French Antarctic expedition led by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 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 hydrographer of his expedition, Clément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin.

Map of Dumoulin Islands, Papua New Guinea

The islands were roughly charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Mawson. The island group was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and recharted by a French Antarctic Expedition under André-Frank Liotard, 1949–51.

References

Dumoulin Islands Wikipedia


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