Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée : Exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, Volume 5

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Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée : Exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, Volume 5

Title remainder

Exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840

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Volume 5

Statement of responsibility

Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville

Creator

• Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César

Language

eng

Summary

In 1836, the French King Louis-Philippe, enthusiastic for Southern Hemisphere exploration, supported J. Dumont d'Urville's plan for a circumnavigation focusing on the South Seas. D'Urville (1790–1842) had already distinguished himself on two Pacific expeditions and was eager to rival the achievements of James Cook. Between 1837 and 1840, the ships Astrolabe and Zélée explored the waters of the Antarctic area and Oceania in extremely harsh conditions: almost forty crew members died or deserted. However, d'Urville discovered a new portion of the Antarctic coast, shed light on the ethnography of several Pacific islands and brought back multitudes of botanical specimens. His impressive contributions to the fields of geography, natural history and ethnography were gathered in this ten-volume work, published between 1841 and 1846. Volume 5, published in 1843, recounts the crew's adventures on small islands off Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Indonesia.--

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• Cambridge library collection, Polar Exploration

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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• Cambridge library collection. Polar Exploration
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks