Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (22 May 1724 – 12 June 1772) was a French privateer, East India captain and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical...

Marion Dufresne is a research and supply vessel named in honour of the 18th-century French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne launched in 1995 and having...

are administered by South Africa. They are named Marion Island (named after Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, 1724–1772) and Prince Edward Island (named after...

being clothed with wood and verdure". When the French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne saw the mountain on 25 March 1772 he named it Pic Mascarin. He...

explorer, ornithologist and taxidermist Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724–1772), French explorer Nicole duFresne (born 1973), Spanish sportive sailor Wylie...

Digue was named after a ship in the fleet of French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, who visited Seychelles in 1768. According to modern historians...

cannibalism of a Dutch sailor. In June 1772, the French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 26 members of his crew were killed and eaten in the Bay of...

at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences. 1772 – French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand. 1775 –...

re-discovered by the French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, and named them Terre de l'Espérance (Marion) and Ile de la Caverne (Pr. Edward) The...

seeing the footprints of "wild beasts having claws like a Tyger". Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, arriving with the Mascarin in 1772, reported seeing a "tiger...

tortoise was kept in the garrison by French explorer Chevalier Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. The creature lived in the fort for 118 years. It died in 1918...

More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following...

coast John C. Frémont American 19th Oregon Trail, Sierra Nevada Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne French 18th Oceania Louis de Freycinet French 19th Western Australia...

islands were discovered on 24 January 1772 by French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne during an expedition. Adelie Land was the last to be discovered...

"La Curieuse", a ship that was under the command of explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. Like a number of islands in the Seychelles, there was a native...

unsuccessfully claimed Vavau for Spain) in 1793 and by the French under Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne in 1772, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse in 1787...

Mettrie (1709–1751), physician and philosopher Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724–1772), explorer Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809), Canadian poet, composer and...

[italicised words crossed out in the original]. In March 1772 Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, in command of two French ships, reached Van Diemen's land on...

'the kororā is sweet'. Early European explorers James Cook and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne remarked, by their arrival in the 18th century, that the area...

Diemen's Land by the British. In 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed on the island. Captain James Cook also sighted the island...

were some conflicts, such as the killing of French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne in 1772 and the destruction of the Boyd in 1809, most contact...

discovered on 24 January 1772, by the expedition of French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, aboard Le Mascarin. His second-in-command, Julien-Marie Crozet...

Clowes 1898, pp. 174–175 Archives Nationales, Série Colonies C4 « Résumé du combat du 29 avril 1758 fait par Monsieur le Comte d'Arché. » (Fr) Clowes (1898)...

Expedition of French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne visits Northland, and anchors at Spirits Bay. 12 June: Marion du Fresne is killed at Tacoury's Cove...

Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Baudin, François Péron and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne were some of the early European explorers to reach the continent...

Digue, after the name of a ship in the fleet of the explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. Praslin: Which Picault calls Isle de Palmes because of the large...

islands in 1756, they were not permanently inhabited. In 1768, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne sailed to Praslin Island to scout for timber and took possession...

Australia. 25 March – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne in Mascarin and the Marquis de Castries sights Mount Taranaki. 12 June – Du Fresne and 26 of his crew...

Robert René Louis de Surville † Sylphide 36 Captain François-Aymar de Monteil Not in line of battle Diligente 24 Captain Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne...

presence in the South Pacific as a consequence of the massacre of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 26 crewman, who were killed and cannibalized in the Bay of...