Charles Marc du Boisguehenneuc (1740 — ''Robuste'', 1778) was a French Navy officer. He took part in the

First voyage of Kerguelen The first voyage of Kerguelen was an expedition of the French Navy to the southern Indian Ocean conducted by the fluyts ''Fortune'' and ''Gros Ventre'', under Lieutenant Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec. The aims of the expedition were to s ...

and served in the

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. Boisguehenneuc Bay was named in his honour.

Biography

Du Boisguehenneuc was cousin to Saint Aloüarn. Du Boisguehenneuc served as first officer on ''Gros Ventre'', under Saint Aloüarn, and took part in the

. In 1771, Saint Aloüarn was sick, and Du Boisguehenneuc took command of ''Gros Ventre'' for the first part of the expedition, consisting in sailing to India along the new route proposed by

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. ''Gros Ventre'' and ''Fortune'' then sailed South and discovered the

Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large ...

on 13 February 1772, and Du Boisguehenneuc went ashore on a boat and claimed the land for France. He returned to France on ''Indien''.

Sources and references

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