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In 1830, French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adélie. According to Wikipedia

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The Adélie penguin is named after the wife of a French explorer, Jules Dumont d'Urville. He named the penguin after her in 1840 during one of his expeditions to Antarctica.

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