Dumont d'Urville, JULES SÉBASTIEN CÉSAR, born at Condé in Calvados, 23d May 1790, and early entered the navy. Sent as captain of the corvette Astrolabe to obtain tidings of La Perouse, he made a three years' voyage in southern seas, and made surveys of parts of the coast of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Fijis, New Caledonia, &c. His Voyage de Découvertes (22 vols.) contains records of this voyage, and of his botanical and entomological observations. In 1837-40 he made a great voyage of antarctic exploration, discovering Joinville Island and Adélie Land. The record of this Voyage au Pole Sud (1854) comprises 22 vols. He died a rear-admiral, 8th May 1842.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 117–118
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