Dumont d'Urville

American  

[dy-mawn dyr-veel] / dü mɔ̃ dürˈvil /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The convoy of supplies can be seen on the 1,000km trek from Dumont d’Urville on the Antarctic coast to Concordia research station.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2017

And an airstrip under construction at France's Dumont d'Urville base has already leveled part of an Adelie-penguin rookery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The authors had visited the islands with the expedition of the French navigator, J. Dumont d'Urville, in his ships the Astrolabe and the Zélée.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

It would be useless to linger with Dumont d'Urville at New South Wales, to the history of which, and its condition in 1826, he devotes a whole volume of his narrative.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.

Dumont d'Urville thinks them identical with the group of Vliegen, already seen by Schouten and Lemaire.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon