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.
Details
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.
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
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
- 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
Resources
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/54157770. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q204735. Details
- 'Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César (1790-1842)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1214702. Details
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
- Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 156 - Phrenologist. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 16 November 2023