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    Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ʁɛmɔ̃ ʒozɛf də bʁyni dɑ̃tʁəkasto]; 8 November 1737 – 21 July...
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    Bruny Island (redirect from Bruni Island)
    the island and the channel are named after French explorer, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Its traditional Aboriginal name is lunawanna-allonah, which...
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  • borne the name D'Entrecasteaux in honour of Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux: D'Entrecasteaux (1858), a second-class aviso. D'Entrecasteaux (1899), a first-class...
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  • Point D'Entrecasteaux is a point on the south coast of Western Australia. The first European sighting was by the Frenchman Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in...
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    In January 1793, a French expedition under the command of Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux anchored in Recherche Bay and a period of five weeks was spent...
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    expanding North Fiji Basin). The name honours French naval officer Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, explorer of the south-west Pacific in the late 18th century...
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  • shooter Antonio Bruni (poet) (1593–1635), Italian poet Antonio Bruni (merchant) (died 1598), Albanian merchant Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737-1793),...
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    needed] The group was named for the French navigator Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, who, in his ship the Espérance, passed through the...
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    (2 in) plating with the double 10 mm backing. D'Entrecasteaux, named for Admiral Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, was built at the Société Nouvelle des Forges...
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    was the French ship Espérance in 1793. The ship's navigator, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, named them after his first lieutenant, Denis de Trobriand....
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    encouraged farmers to settle in the district of Savanne) and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (who saw to it that the French in the Indian Ocean should have...
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    himself. Willaumez eventually became an officer and served under Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in his expedition to rescue Jean-François de Galaup, comte de...
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    by Europeans for 165 years, when in 1792 the French explorer Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux searched there for his lost compatriot La Pérouse. Michael Pearson...
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  • Ocean) Louis Antoine de Bougainville (circumnavigation) Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (North America) Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (Indian Ocean...
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    first known European sighting of the cape was by Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1791. d'Entrecasteaux thought the cape was an island, and named it "Isle...
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    from Deboyne Islands . The islands were discovered in 1793 by Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 New Guinea Enroute, p. 168...
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    (along with Bougainville). On 25 September 1791, Rear Admiral Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux departed Brest in search of Lapérouse. His expedition followed...
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    300 ft), are known as the Falaises d'Entrecasteaux after the 18th-century French navigator Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. No historical eruptions are known...
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  • Ventenat (1757-1808). Ventenat was a member of a mission led by Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737-1793) in a search for explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse...
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    River Derwent, unaware that it had already been charted by Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. He (re)named many geographic features, generally using the...
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  • and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1610) 1793 – Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739) 1796 – Robert...
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    1772, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse in 1787 and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1793. Fletcher Christian also led the mutiny on the Bounty...
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    Willis and Phillip Holzknecht can be summarised below; 1793 Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux sailed up tail of New Guinea into the Gulf he named Huon de...
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    Claude-Antoine-Gaspard Riche (20 August 1762 – 5 September 1797) was a naturalist on Bruni d'Entrecasteaux's 1791 expedition in search of the lost ships...
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    1768 by French captain Louis Antoine de Bougainville and explored 1793 by French explorer Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Misima island owes its name to...
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    Province. It was named after Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez by Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. The peninsula extends into the Bismarck Sea as an elongated...
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    Dumont d'Urville 21 March 1931 Broken up, 26 March 1958 D'Entrecasteaux Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux AC de Provence, Port-de-Bouc 22 June 1931 Broken up...
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    Labillardière in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) during a voyage with Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Labillardière described it in his 1805 work Novae Hollandiae...
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    entrecasteauxii, is in honor of French naval officer and explorer Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. The southern grass skink has become a model species for reproductive...
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    Islands. In 1791, Berthoud supplied four marine chronometers to Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, to aid his expedition to search for Lapérouse with the frigates...
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