Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer (died 1842)

Jules Dumont d'Urville

French explorer and naval officer (1790–1842)

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs and to places such as…