Jules Dumont d'Urville

✶May 23, 1790

†May 8, 1842

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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs and to places such as d'Urville Island in New Zealand.

French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)

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