Adélie Land
| Region of Antarctica, situated south of 60° south and between 136° and 142° east. It has a coastal strip which is about 140 km/87 mi long, mountainous, covered in snow and ice, and inhabited only by a research team. It covers an area of 432,000 sq km/166,800 sq mi. It was claimed for France in 1840. |
| It was first visited by Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville in 1840 and named by him after his wife. Since 1949 French expeditions, sponsored by P E Victor and the French Polar Expedition Organization (Expéditions Polaires Françaises), have explored and mapped much unknown land here. |
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