Terre Adélie

/ tɛr adeli /

noun

1. the French name for Adélie Land

Example Sentences

Researchers have studied the emperor penguins around Pointe Géologie, in Terre Adélie, since the 1960s.

From Salon

Researchers have studied the emperor penguins around Pointe Géologie, in Terre Adélie, since the 1960s.

From Salon

The Adélie penguin, for example, was first identified by a naturalist who joined an 1837 expedition to southeastern Antarctica led by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville, who named the place Terre Adélie after his wife.

From Science Magazine

For more than 60 years, scientists have extensively studied one Emperor Penguin colony in Antarctica, called Terre Adélie.

From Salon

In 2012, the two scientists and their team published a study in the journal Global Change Biology, that found that the Terre Adélie penguin population could decline by 80 percent by the end of this century.

From Washington Post