Dumont d'Urville

[dy-mawn dyr-veel]

noun

1. Jules Sébastien César 1790–1842, French naval officer, cartographer, and botanist: explored the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.

Example Sentences

Dumont D’Urville — which has 92 deluxe cabins and represents “a new generation of unprecedented design, technology, and standards in comfort and elegance, and caters to the most discerning passengers.”

From Washington Times

The data, which includes more than 10,000 vertical temperature profiles, was gathered during multiple transits per year from Hobart in Tasmania to the Dumont d’Urville research station in Antarctica.

From Washington Post

The Adélie penguin, for example, was first identified by a naturalist who joined an 1837 expedition to southeastern Antarctica led by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville, who named the place Terre Adélie after his wife.

From Science Magazine

The Dumont d'Urville and Concordia stations were in danger of being left without a way to obtain more food, fuel and equipment this summer, after the French navy discovered a critical defect in its transport ship L'Astrolabe, which is docked in Hobart, Australia.

From Nature

L’Astrolabe was scheduled to travel to the Dumont d'Urville and Concordia stations before the fault was detected last week in the ship’s propeller.

From Nature