of Paris, and the Lycée Dumont D'Urville in Caen. Dumont d'Urville himself named Pepin Island and Adélie Land in Antarctica after his wife, and Croisilles Harbour for his mother's family. A French naval transport ship employed in French Polynesia is named after him; as was a 1931 sloop which served in World War II. Sources and references Notes Citations References Edward Duyker Dumont d’Urville: Explorer and Polymath, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2014, pp. 671, , University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2014, . External links Adorning the world: art of the Marquesas Islands, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Jules Dumont d'Urville (figs. 2,3,4) Dumont (1833) Voyage de la corvette L'Astrolabe...Atlas – digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library. The library's collection also includes a number of high-resolution images from Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe'' here. 1790 births 1842 deaths People from Condé-sur-Noireau Explorers of Oceania French explorers French explorers of the Pacific 19th-century explorers French Navy admirals Railway accident deaths in France Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery Graham Land French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars