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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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26, 2009, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that if climate change continues to melt sea ice at the rates published in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, the median population size of the Terre Adelie penguin colony likely would shrink from its present size of 3,000 to only 400 breeding pairs by the end of the century.
Are emperor penguins marching to extinction? by Villano, Matt / Oceanus
These analyses indicate that the Terre Adelie rookery could host only 400 breeding pairs by the end of this century.
Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins by Gaidos, Susan / Science News for Kids
If climate change continues to melt sea ice at the rate highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the large emperor penguin colony in Terre Adelie, Antarctica is set to shrink from its current 3,000 breeding pairs to only 400 pairs in 2100.
Climate change setting penguins on march to extinction: study by AFP / AFP American Edition
 
 
 
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