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    Louis Francois Marie Aleno de Saint Aloüarn[needs IPA] (25 July 1738 – 27 October 1772) was a French Navy officer and explorer who claimed French Western...
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    François Thijssen, in 1627 and the French Gros Ventre, under Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn, in 1772. The first known European sighting of the cape was by...
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    expedition under French explorer Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn in 1772. On 28 March 1772, the French navigator Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed on Dirk Hartog Island...
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  • by Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn, became the first Europeans known to have visited the islands. A few weeks later, at Dirk Hartog Island, St Aloüarn formally...
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    1699. Shark Bay was also visited by Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn in 1772, Nicolas Baudin from 1801 to 1803 and Louis de Freycinet in 1818. Europeans, mostly...
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  • Nuyts, Leeuwin and Edels Lands. 1772 – On 30 March, Frenchman Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed at Turtle Bay at the northern end of Dirk Hartog Island...
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    the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. On 28 March 1772, Breton navigator Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed on the island and became the first European to formally...
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    kill one of them. In the same year, a French expedition led by Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn, became the first Europeans to formally claim sovereignty over...
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    by a storm. The leader turned back but the second in command, Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn, sighted Cape Leeuwin and followed the Western Australian coast...
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    shipping routes to India. Captains: Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734–1797), Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn (1738–1772) An expedition in the brig Sir Lawrence...
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    de Kerguelen, then in Port-Louis, in his first campaign of discovery of the southern Indian Ocean. He served on the fluyt Gros Ventre, as Louis Aleno...
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