Adélie Coast

Proper noun

Adélie Coast

1. Synonym of Adélie Land.
   • Dumont d’Urville led a French expedition in 1840 which landed on the Adélie Coast, south of the Australian island of Tasmania.1962, Henry S. Francis, Jr., Philip M. Smith, “Young Discoverers”, in Defrosting Antarctic Secrets: The Challenge of the Frozen Frontier (Juvenile), New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page...
   • 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.1987 December 10, Malcolm W. Browne, “2 in Navy Killed as U.S. Research Plane Crashes in Antarctica”, in The New York Times (U.S. section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   Adélie Land