Adélie Land
Adélie Land Terre Adélie | |
|---|---|
Flag | |
| Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" | |
| Anthem: La Marseillaise | |
| Official languages | French |
| Government | |
| Emmanuel Macron | |
• Administrator | Cécile Pozzo di Borgo[1] |
• Head of District | François Grosvalet[2] |
| French overseas territory | |
• Coastline discovered | 1840 |
| Area | |
• Total | 432,000 km2 (167,000 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | around 33 (winter) < 80 (summer) |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) |
| Time zone | UTC+10 |
| Calling code | +262 262 00 2 |
| Internet TLD | .tf .al |
Adélie Land (French: Terre Adélie) is France's claim in Antarctica, It stretches from the Great Southern Ocean inland all the way to the South Pole. It was named after Adèle Dumont d'Urville,[3] the wife of French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville.
References
- ↑ "Official nomination". Archived from the original on 2018-11-02. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
- ↑ "List of chefs de district". Archived from the original on 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
- ↑ "Story: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sébastien César". Archived from the original on 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2018-08-10.