Mount D'Urville, Antarctica

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.

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

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, 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.

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