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>> Dumont d'Urville
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To visite the station
Pictures of the station in the years 60-70
Weather forecasting at Dumont d'Urville |
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It is in 1950
in Port Martin, that the first french station in Antarctic was built.
After two wintering and the day before the third in 1952, this one burns
during a fire poked by a violent wind.
In parallel, an additional base is built on Petrels
Island in the archipelago of Point Geology where 7 people
under the direction of Mario Marret will winter there, for
what will be the third Adelie Coast wintering. In 1953, this
station will be closed, but this one restored in particular
by the 36ème mission, is always in state.
See the page about the Marret station...
The International Geophysical
year in 1957-1958 launches a new dynamic. The site of Petrel Island is then
retained to build there the principal base called “Dumont d'Urville” supposed being occupied during 3 years (1956 to 1958).
The Petrels Island, 900m in its bigger length for 500m in its greater width,
was selected for 4 imperative reasons:
- climatic conditions definitely
more favorable than to Port-Martin : less violent wind catabatic, less
frequent blizzard, better visibility and a clear sky more for the
scientific observations.
- possibility of building on a stable ground, existence of a beach of unloading facilitating the
operations.
- possibility of access to the continent, which will
facilitate the raids on the continent
- central part of the Island
consisted a plate of average altitude of 40m, facilitating the scientific
constructions and observations. |
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The french
station Dumont d'Urville (of the name of the explorer which discovered the Adélie Land on January 20, 1840), is in edge of the
Antarctic continent to 2 700 kms of the island of Tasmanie in the south of
Australia.
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opposite. |
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She is located at
the point of the French part of the Antarctic, called the Adélie Land.
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opposite.
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Source :
IPEV |
The base is on
Petrels Island to 43 m of altitude, in the small archipelago of
Point Geology, to 5 kms of the Antarctic
continent.
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opposite.
The
ice-barrier completely isolates the station from the rest of the world for 8
months and at the end of the winter this barrier of ice can reach 300 kms
the broad one! |
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