Adélie Land
Adélie Land | |
|---|---|
| Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" | |
| Anthem: "La Marseillaise" | |
| Status | District of French Southern and Antarctic Lands |
| Capital and largest city | Dumont d'Urville Station |
| Official languages | French |
| Demonym(s) | French |
| Government | |
| Emmanuel Macron | |
• Administrator | Cécile Pozzo di Borgo |
• Head of District | Pierre Bascelli |
| French overseas territory | |
• Discovered and claimed by France | 20 January 1840 |
• Administered from French Madagascar | 1924 |
• Administered as a district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands | 1955 |
| Area | |
• Total | 432,000 km2 (167,000 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | c. 33 (winter) < 80 (summer) |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) |
| Time zone | UTC+10 |
| Calling code | +262 262 00 2 |
| Internet TLD | |
Adélie Land (French: Terre Adélie [tɛʁ adeli]) or Adélie Coast is a claimed territory of France located on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a portion of the Southern Ocean coastline all the way inland to the South Pole. France has administered it as one of five districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands since 1955 and applied the Antarctic Treaty System rules since 1961. Article 4 of the Antarctic Treaty deals with territorial claims, and although it does not renounce or diminish any preexisting claims to sovereignty, it also does not prejudice the position of contracting parties in their recognition or non-recognition of territorial sovereignty. France has had a permanent station in Adélie Land since 9 April 1950.