Astrolabe Needle
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Astrolabe Needle () is a conspicuous monolith rising 50 m above sea level south of Claude Point, Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1903-05, and named after the Astrolabe, one of the ships of the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837-40.
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