Mount D’Urville is the ice-covered peak rising to 1085 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It is surmounting Sestrimo Glacier

Sestrimo Glacier

Sestrimo Glacier is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier, west-northwest of Broad Valley and north of Cugnot Ice Piedmont...

 to the east.

The peak is named after Captain Jules Dumont d’Urville, leader of the 1837-40 French Antarctic expedition.

Location

Mount D’Urville is located at 63°30′34"S 58°11′38"W, which is 6.15 km southwest of Argentino (Guerrero) Hill, 11.85 km west-northwest of Yarlovo Nunatak

Yarlovo Nunatak

Yarlovo Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 744 m in the north foothills of Giovannini Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 9.93 km north by west of Kukuryak Bluff

Kukuryak Bluff

Kukuryak Bluff is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, and 19.3 km east-northeast of Crown Peak

Crown Peak

Crown Peak is an ice-covered peak topped by a conspicuous crown-shaped ice formation. It forms the highest summit and the south end of Marescot Ridge and lies 10 nautical miles east of Cape Roquemaurel on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.