Cape Jules is a rockycape with a smallcove along its northern end, 3 nautical miles (6 km) west ofZelee Glacier Tongue, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the French expedition under Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40. Jules is the given name of the discoverer, CaptainJules Dumont d'Urville, as well as his son. The area was charted by theAustralasian Antarctic Expedition in 1912–13, and again by theBritish Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition in 1931, both underMawson. The French Antarctic Expedition underMichel Barre established astronomical control at this locality in 1951.[1]
An 112 ha site comprising all the ice-free ground at the cape has been identified as anImportant Bird Area (IBA) byBirdLife International because it supports a colony of about 56,000Adélie penguins (as estimated from 2011 satellite imagery).[2]
This article incorporatespublic domain material from"Cape Jules".Geographic Names Information System.United States Geological Survey.66°44′S140°55′E / 66.733°S 140.917°E /-66.733; 140.917
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