French Antarctic Expedition
The term French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French Antarctic expeditions.
First and second expedition
Yves Joseph de Kerguelen in 1772 sailed de Trémarec, a French Discovered, in search of the fabled Terra Australis in Antarctica, where he discovered the Kerguelen and various territories of France took possession. He was accompanied by naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguiere.
In his report to King Louis XV. he overestimated the value of the Kerguelen strong; subsequently he was sent on a second expedition, in which he again reached the Kerguelen. Meanwhile, it had become clear that the islands desolate, largely useless and with certainty not the Terra Australis were. On his return, Kerguelen Trémarec was sent to prison.
Third expedition
In 1837 Jules Dumont d' Urville led an expedition to the south polar regions, where he sailed along the coast of part of Antarctica, which he called his wife in honor of Adélie Coast. On his return in 1840 he was appointed Rear Admiral.
Fourth expedition
From 1903 to 1905 led Jean -Baptiste Charcot, an expedition that explored the west coast of Graham Land to the Français. The expedition reached the 1905 Adelaide Island and took photos from the Palmer Archipelago and the Loubet Coast.
1904 we explored superficially the southwest coast of Anvers Island. A small peninsula in the southeast of Biscoe Bay received the name Presqu'ile de Biscoe, which John Biscoe was honored, which might be 1832 landed nearby. In January 1905, the Loubet Coast was explored and named after Émile Loubet, the then President of France. Other areas explored the island were Rabot (named after Charles Rabot ), the Watkins Island, Arthur Bay and the Lavoisier Island, which was named after Fridtjof Nansen Nansen Ile. The Mount Français in the Trojan Mountains was named after the expedition ship.
Fifth expedition
From 1908 to 1910 explored another expedition under Charcot with the ship Pourquoi -Pas? IV the Bellingshausen Sea and Amundsen Sea and discovered the Marguerite Bay and the Charcot Island, which was named after him.
They wintered aboard ship in a small bay on the southeast side of the Petermann Island, which was named Port Circumcision because it was found on January 1, 1909, the traditional day for celebrating the circumcision of Christ. Mapped and named areas included the Renaud Island, Fallières Coast ( January 1909, named after Clement Armand Fallieres, President of France ) and Marguerite Bay ( named after Charcot's wife).
1909 discovered the Mikkelsen Bay, which, however, was not recognized as a bay because of the distance. The Mikkelsen Islands were named as the bay to Otto Mikkelsen, a Norwegian diver who had inspected the damaged hull of the Pourquoi -Pas.
The expedition explored the Adelaide Island for the first time. The Mille - border island was discovered and presumably named after Alexandre Millerand, a French statesman. Also Baron Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild was honored by being named to the Rothschild island after him.