Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne

Jacques Gouin de Beauchene ( Old French often Beauchesne; * 1652 in Saint- Malo, France, † 1730 ) was a French captain.

He undertook in 1698 a trip to the Pacific Ocean, which he sailed on the way through the Strait of Magellan, on the return trip around Cape Horn. From him the name Île Louis le Grand was born (now Isla Carlos III. ) For a small island on the Pacific exit of the Strait of Magellan. As in 1700 came back from the South Seas, he was lying on the eastern side of the Malvinas Islands at anchor, but kept this first for the Sebald Islands. The first and only European who had anchored there before him, the Englishman John Strong was ten years earlier.

The discovered Beauchene in the January 1701 southern Malvinas island still bears his name today: Île Beauchene.