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Adélie Coast
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Adélie coast
en Adélie Land.
en 1962 Henry S. Francis, Jr. Philip M. Smith Young Discoverers Defrosting Antarctic Secrets: The Challenge of the Frozen Frontier https://archive.org/details/defrostingantarc0000fran/ Juvenile New York w:Coward-McCann, Inc. 62-10942 1368777 25 https://archive.org/details/defrostingantarc0000fran/page/25/ Dumont d’Urville led a French expedition in 1840 which landed on the Adélie Coast, south of the Australian island of Tasmania.
en December 10, 1987 w:Malcolm W. Browne 2 in Navy Killed as U.S. Research Plane Crashes in Antarctica https://web.archive.org/web/20150524210453/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/10/us/2-in-navy-killed-as-us-research-plane-crashes-in-antarctica.html May 24, 2015 U.S. https://archive.ph/xXo6y The airstrip is situated about 860 miles northeast of McMurdo Station, the main American base in Antarctica and about 100 miles inland from Adelie Coast in eastern Antarctica.
en March 18, 2022 w:Jason Samenow; w:Kasha Patel It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318220112/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/18/antarctica-heat-wave-climate-change/ March 18, 2022 Capital Weather Gang https://archive.ph/9ADOa Temperatures running at least 50 degrees (32 Celsius) above normal have expanded over vast portions of eastern Antarctica from the Adélie Coast through much of the eastern ice sheet’s interior.