412899
- TitlePapers concerning voyage of the Coquille, 1822-1825, and the Astrolabe, 1826-1829 / Jules Dumont d'Urville
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- Call numberA 1827 (Safe 1/392)
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1822-1829 - Type of material
- Reference code412899
- Issue CopyMicrofilm : CY 119, frames 1-652
- Physical Description0.14 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript - 33 x 26 cm
1 drawing - charcoal - 28.1 x 20.5 cm - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
French navigator who commanded voyages to the South Pacific (1826–29) and the Antarctic (1837–40), resulting in extensive revisions of existing charts and discovery or redesignation of island groups.
In 1822 he served on a voyage around the world on the Coquille (later renamed the Astrolobe) and then on a later mission to the South Pacific, where he searched for traces of explorer Jean-François La Pérouse, lost in that region in 1788. He charted parts of New Zealand and visited the Fiji and Loyalty islands, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Amboyna, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), the Caroline Islands, and the Celebes. In February 1828 d'Urville sighted wreckage, believed to be from the frigates of La Pérouse, at Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz Islands. The voyage resulted in extensive revision in charts of South Sea waters and redesignation of island groups into Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Malaysia. D'Urville also returned with about 1,600 plant specimens, 900 rock samples, and information on the languages of the islands he had visited. Promoted to capitaine de vaisseau (captain) in 1829, he conveyed the exiled king Charles X to England in August 1830. In September 1837 D'Urville set sail on the Astrolabe from Toulon on a voyage to Antarctica. After surveying in the Straits of Magellan, d'Urville's ships reached the pack ice at 63°29 S, 44°47 W, but they were ill-equipped and unable to penetrate the pack. Heading westward, they visited the South Orkneys and the South Shetlands and discovered Joinville Island and Louis Philippe Land before scurvy forced them to stop at Talcahuano, Chile. After proceeding across the Pacific to the Fiji and Pelew (now Palau) islands, New Guinea, and Borneo, they returned to the Antarctic, hoping to discover the magnetic pole in the unexplored sector between 120° and 160° E. In January 1840 they sighted the Adélie coast, south of Australia, and named it for Mme d'Urville. The expedition reached France late in 1841. The following year d'Urville was killed, with his wife and son, in a railway accident. Dumont d'Urville's chief works include (with others) Voyage de la corvette “l'Astrolabe,” 1826–1829 (1830–34; “Voyage of the Corvette ‘Astrolabe,' 1826–1829”) and Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie, 1837–1840 (1841–54; “Voyage to the South Pole and in Oceania, 1837–1840”) - Scope and ContentA collection of copies of original manuscripts, in French, relating to Dumont d'Urville's two voyages to the South Seas. Mainly in the handwriting of Dumont d'Urville.
Item 1: Tableau des Iles de l'Oceanie, 1820s / Jules Dumont d'Urville
Item 2: Observations phytologiques, 1822-1824 / Jules Dumont d'Urville
Item 3: Observations entomologiques, 1822-1824 / Jules Dumont d'Urville
Item 4: Notes relatives a un voyage aux Iles du Pacifique, 1820s / Jules Dumont d'Urville
Item 5: Especes et des races humaines, 1826 / Jules Dumont d'Urville
Item 6: Copie de Lettres ecrites au cours de son voyage 1827-1828 / Jules Dumont d'Urville
Item 7: Portrait de Dumont d'Urville, 1 December 1822 - Language
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Title, date, and contents taken from items and summary note in box housing items. - General note
Digital order no:a4142001 - Name
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