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DUMONT D'URVILLE, JULES SEBASTIEN CESAR (179o–1842), See also:French navigator, was See also:born at See also:Conde-sur-Noireau, in See also:Normandy, on the 23rd of May 1790. The See also:death of his See also:father, who before the revolution had held a judicial See also:post in Conde, devolved the care of his See also:education on his See also:mother and his maternal See also:uncle, the See also:Abbe de Croizilles. Failing to pass the entrance examination for the 1 See also:Cole Polytechnique, he went to See also:sea in 1807 as a novice on See also:board the "Aquilon." During the next twelve years he gradually See also:rose in the service, and added a knowledge of See also:botany, See also:entomology, See also:English, See also:German, See also:Spanish, See also:Italian and even See also:Hebrew and See also:Greek to the professional branches of his studies. In 1820, while engaged in a hydrographic survey of the Mediterranean, he was fortunate enough to recognize the See also:Venus of See also:Milo (Melos) in a Greek statue recently unearthed, and to secure its preservation by the See also:report he presented to the French See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople. A wider See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field for his energies was furnished in 1822 by the circumnavigating expedition of the "Coquille" under the command of his friend Duperrey; and on its return in 1825 his services were rewarded by promotion to the See also:rank of capitaine de fregate, and he was entrusted with the See also:control of a similar enterprise, with the especial purpose of discovering traces of the lost explorer La Perouse, in which he was successful. The "See also:Astrolabe," as he renamed the "Coquille," See also:left See also:Toulon on the 25th of See also:April 1826, and returned to See also:Marseilles on the 25th of See also:March 1829, having traversed the See also:South See also:Atlantic, coasted the Australian See also:continent from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:George's See also:Sound to See also:Port See also:Jackson, charted various parts of New See also:Zealand, and visited the See also:Fiji Islands, the See also:Loyalty Islands, New See also:Caledonia, New See also:Guinea, See also:Amboyna, See also:Van See also:Diemen's See also:Land, the See also:Caroline Islands, See also:Celebes and See also:Mauritius. Promotion to the rank of capitaine de vaisseau was bestowed on the See also:commander in See also:August 1829; and in August of the following See also:year he was charged with the delicate task of conveying the exiled king See also:Charles X. to See also:England. His proposal to undertake a voyage of See also:discovery to the south polar regions was discouraged by See also:Arago and others, who criticized the See also:work of the previous expedition in no measured terms; but at last, in 1837, all difficulties were surmounted, and on the 7th of See also:September he set See also:sail from Toulon with the "Astrolabe" and its See also:convoy "La Mee." On the 15th of See also:January 1838 they sighted the See also:Antarctic See also:ice, and soon after their progress southward was blocked by a continuous See also:bank, which they vainly coasted for 300 M. to the See also:east. Returning westward they visited the South See also:Orkney Islands and See also:part of the New Shetlands, and discovered See also:Joinville See also:Island and See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe Land, but were compelled by See also:scurvy to seek succour at See also:Talcahuano in See also:Chile. Thence they proceeded across the Pacific and through the See also:Asiatic See also:archipelago, visiting among others the Fiji and the Pelew Islands, See also:coasting New Guinea, and circumnavigating See also:Borneo. In 184o, leaving their sick at See also:Hobart See also:Town, See also:Tasmania, they returned to the Antarctic region, and on the 21st of the See also:month were rewarded by the discovery of Adelie Land, which D'Urville named after his wife, in 14o° E. The 6th of See also:November found them at Toulon. D'Urville was at once appointed contre-amiral, and in 1841 he received the See also:gold See also:medal of the Societe de Geographie. On the 8th of May 1842 he was killed, with his wife and son, in a railway See also:accident near See also:Meudon.
His See also:principal See also:works are—Enumeratio plantarum quas in insulis Archipelagi See also:aut littoribus Ponti Euxini, &c. (1822); Voyage de la corvette "1'Astrolabe," x826–x829 (See also:Paris, 183o–1835), and Voyage au See also:pole sud et clans l'Oceanie, x8,37–x840 (Paris, 1842-1854), in each of which his scientific colleagues had a See also:share; Voyages autour du monde; resume See also:general See also:des voyages de See also:Magellan, &c. (Paris, 1833 and 1844). An island (also called Kairu) off the See also:north See also:coast of New Guinea, and a cape on the same coast, See also:bear the name of D'Urville.
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