Person

d'Urville, Jules Dumont (1790 - 1842)

Born
23 May 1790
Conde-sur-Noireau, France
Died
12 May 1842
France
Occupation
Antarctic explorer, Naval officer and Navigator

Summary

Jules Dumont d'Urville was Captain in charge of an Antarctic expedition (1837-1840) which discovered the Louis Philippe, Joinville and Adélie Lands. He published a number of popular books on his travels.

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Hydrographic researches in Aegean and Black Seas 1819-20, went round the world as second in command of the "Coquille" 1822-25, went to Polynesia 1826-29 as captain of the "Astrolabe" to search for La Pérouse, gathering valuable scientific data and finding the relics of La Pérouse's expedition at Vanikoro. Escorted King Charles X and his family, deposed by the July Revolution, to England in 1830. Placed by new king, Louis Philippe, in charge of an Antarctic expedition in 1837-40, which discovered the Louis Philippe, Joinville and Adélie Lands. Promoted to Admiral, accidentally killed in 1842.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Dunmore, John, From Venus to Antarctica: the life of Dumont d'Urville (Titirangi, Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2007), 252 pp. Details
  • D'Urville, Jules Dumont, An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain (Later Rear-Admiral) Jules S.C. Dumont D'Urville of the French Navy to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1828 in the Corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the Corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1987), 731 pp. Details
  • Duyker, Edward, Dumont d'Urville: explorer & polymath ([Dunedin, New Zealand]: Otago University Press, 2014), 671 pp. Details
  • Hunt, Susan, Terry, Martin and Thomas, Nichollas, Lure of the Southern Seas: the Voyages of Dumont d'Urville, 1826-1840 (Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2002), 143 pp. Details
  • Mawer, Granville Allen, South by Northwest: the Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2006), 319 pp. Details
  • McConville, Andrew, In search of the last continent: Australia and early Antarctic exploration (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022), 227 pp. Details
  • Moon, Paul, The Voyagers: Remarkable European Explorations of New Zealand (Auckland (N.Z.): Penguin Books, 2014), 251 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Clark, Paul F.; Crossnier, Alain, 'The Zoology of the 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 sous le commandement de M. Dumont-d'Urville (1842-1854): Titles, Volumes, Plates, Text, Contents, Proposed Dates, and Anecdotal History of the Publication', Archives of Natural History, 29 (2000), 407-435. Details
  • Mason, Alan, 'The Dumont d'Urville 1854 Account of the Geology of New Zealand', Journal of the Historical Studies Group, Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 39 (2010), 3-7. Details
  • Mayer, W., 'First geological investigations in Australia and Antarctica by French scientists, naturalists, and surgeons on voyages of discovery, between 1792 and 1840', Travaux du Comité français d’histoire de la géologie, ser. 3, 36 (2022), 127-45, https://hal.science/hal-04424124v1/document. Details
  • Starbuck, Nicole, '"Naturally fearful": emotion, race and French-Papuan encounters, 1818 -30', Journal of Pacific History, 51 (4) (2016), 357-74. Details
  • Stein, Glenn, 'Medals and Decorations of the French South Seas and Antarctic Expedition 1937-40', Antarctic: Magazine of the New Zealand Antarctic Society, 24 (4) (2006), 68-70. Details

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Reviews

  • Duyker, Edward, Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath (2014)
    Dunmore, John, French Australian Review, 57, (2015), 122-4. Details
  • Duyker, Edward, Dumont d'Urville: explorer & polymath (2014)
    Sankey, Margaret, Historical Records of Australian Science, 26 (2), (2015), 206-7, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR15901. Details

See also

Rosanne Walker

Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 16 November 2023

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