Astrolabe Needle
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Template:Use dmy dates Astrolabe Needle (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is a conspicuous monolith rising Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level south of Claude Point, Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the 1903–1905 French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot and named after the Astrolabe, one of the ships of the 1837–1840 French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville.