Meanings
- 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 252 more examples
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, archived from the original on 24 May 2015Temperatures 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.
2022 March 18, Jason Samenow, Kasha Patel, “It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.”, in The Washington Post (Capital Weather Gang section), Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2022Synonyms: Adélie Land
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Adélie Land.
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Adélie Coast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ad%C3%A9lie%20Coast
“Adélie Coast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ad%C3%A9lie%20Coast. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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