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The first voyage of Kerguelen was an expedition of the French Navy to the southern Indian Ocean conducted by the fluyts ''Fortune'' and ''Gros Ventre'', under Lieutenant Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 34 relations: Ahutoru, Alexis-Marie de Rochon, Australia, Binot Paulmier de Gonneville, Cape Circoncision, Cape Leeuwin, Charles de Mengaud de la Haye, Charles du Boisguehenneuc, Emmanuel Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Aiguillon, Ferdinand Berthoud, Fluyt, François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros, François Julien du Dresnay, French fluyt Fortune (1758), French fluyt Gros Ventre (1767), French Navy, French ship Berryer (1770), Isle de France (Mauritius), Jacques de Grenier, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Joseph Marie Terray, Kerguelen Islands, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Louis XVI, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Marine chronometer, Mauritius, Pierre Poivre, Port Louis, Río de la Plata, Second voyage of Kerguelen, Tahiti, Terra Australis, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec.

  2. 1770s in science
  3. 1771 in France
  4. 1771 in transport
  5. 1772 in France
  6. 1772 in transport
  7. 18th-century history of the French Navy
  8. Expeditions from France
  9. Exploration of the Indian Ocean

Ahutoru

Ahutoru (1740 – 6 November 1771) was a Tahitian man, brother and adopted son of Ereti, the chief of the village where Louis Antoine de Bougainville anchored.

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Alexis-Marie de Rochon

Alexis-Marie de Rochon, known as Abbé Rochon, was born in Brest, France on 21 February 1741, and died in Paris on 5 April 1817.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Binot Paulmier de Gonneville

Binot Paulmier, sieur de Gonneville, French navigator of the early 16th century, was widely believed in 17th and 18th century France to have been the discoverer of the Terra Australis.

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Cape Circoncision

Cape Circoncision (Norwegian: Kapp Circoncision) is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island.

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Cape Leeuwin

Cape Leeuwin is the most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent, in the state of Western Australia.

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Charles de Mengaud de la Haye

Charles de Mengaud de La Haye was a French Navy officer.

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Charles du Boisguehenneuc

Charles Marc du Boisguehenneuc (1740 – 1778 in ''Robuste'') was a French Navy officer.

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Emmanuel Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Aiguillon

Emmanuel Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Aiguillon (31 July 17201 September 1788), was a French soldier and statesman, and a nephew of Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu.

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Ferdinand Berthoud

Ferdinand Berthoud (born 18 March 1727, in Plancemont-sur-Couvet, Principality of Neuchâtel; died 20 June 1807, in Groslay, Val d'Oise), was a scientist and watchmaker.

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Fluyt

A fluyt (archaic Dutch: fluijt "flute") is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel.

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François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros

François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros (13 January 1748, Brest – 12 November 1832, Paris) was a French naval commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

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François Julien du Dresnay

François-Julien du Dresnay des Roches (28 January 1719, Saint-Pol-de-Léon — Kerlaudy, 12 August 1786) was a French Navy officer and colonial administrator of the 18th century.

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French fluyt Fortune (1758)

Fortune was an armed storeship of the French Navy.

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French fluyt Gros Ventre (1767)

Gros Ventre was an armed storeship of the French Navy.

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French Navy

The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.

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French ship Berryer (1770)

Berryer was a 56-gun East Indiaman, and later ship of the line of the French Navy.

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Isle de France (Mauritius)

Isle de France was a French colony in the Indian Ocean from 1715 to 1810, comprising the island now known as Mauritius and its dependent territories.

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Jacques de Grenier

Jacques Raymond de Grenier du Giron (Saint-Pierre, Martinique, 28 June 1736 — Paris, 2 January 1803), was a French navy officer.

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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French sailor, explorer, and governor of the Mascarene Islands to the east of Madagascar.

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Joseph Marie Terray

Abbot Joseph Marie Terray (9 December 1715 – 18 February 1778) was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France, an agent of fiscal reform.

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Kerguelen Islands

The Kerguelen Islands (or; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel Kerguelen), also known as the Desolation Islands (Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer.

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Louis XVI

Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne

Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 – 12 June 1772) was a French privateer, East India captain and explorer.

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Marine chronometer

A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation.

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Mauritius

Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.

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Pierre Poivre

Pierre Poivre (23 August 1719 – 6 January 1786) was an 18th-century horticulturist and botanist.

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Port Louis

Port Louis (Port-Louis,; Polwi or Porlwi) is the capital city of Mauritius.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata, also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda.

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Second voyage of Kerguelen

The Second voyage of Kerguelen was an expedition of the French Navy to the southern Indian Ocean conducted by the 64-gun ship of the line ''Roland'', the 32-gun frigate ''Oiseau'', and the corvette ''Dauphine'', under Captain Kerguelen. First voyage of Kerguelen and Second voyage of Kerguelen are 1770s in science, 18th-century history of the French Navy, expeditions from France and Exploration of the Indian Ocean.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

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Terra Australis

Terra Australis (Latin) was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries.

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Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec

Yves Joseph Marie de Kerguelen-Trémarec (13 February 1734 – 3 March 1797) was a French Navy officer.

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See also

1770s in science

1771 in France

1771 in transport

1772 in France

1772 in transport

18th-century history of the French Navy

Expeditions from France

Exploration of the Indian Ocean

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_Kerguelen

Also known as First expedition of Kerguelen.