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Places

* Autonomous Region of Bougainville, historically known as the North Solomons, **
Bougainville Island Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: ''Bogenvil'') is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. It was previously the main landmass in the German Empire-associated North Solomons. Its land area is ...
, the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea *** Bougainville campaign, World War II *
Bougainville, Somme Bougainville (; pcd, Boudjinville) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography Bougainville is situated on the D141 road, some west of Amiens. Population Places of interest * Church of Saint-Arno ...
, a commune in Somme département, France *
Bougainville Strait Bougainville Strait separates Choiseul Island, part of the Solomon Islands from Bougainville Island, the next to the northward and part of Papua New Guinea. The first European to pass through the strait was Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1768, wh ...
, a strait which separates Choiseul Island (Solomon Islands) from Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) *
Cape Bougainville Cape Bougainville is the second-most northerly point on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, after Cape Dolphin, and is the second-most northerly point of the two main islands, East and West Falkland. Many of the smaller islands, such as the Jason Is ...
, East Falkland, Falkland Islands, Falklands (United Kingdom); a cape * ''Isla Bougainville'', the Spanish name for
Lively Island Lively Island ( es, Isla Bougainville) is the largest of the Lively Island Group of the Falkland Islands, The island group lies east of East Falkland. Lively Island is the largest rat-free island in the Falklands, hence its importance to birdli ...
in the Falkland Islands


People

* Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator, explorer and military commander *
Hyacinthe de Bougainville Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, baron de Bougainville (26 December 1781 – 18 October 1846) was a French naval officer. He was the son of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.Randier, p.292 He became Rear-Admiral on 1 May 1838. Career As a youn ...
(1781–1846), French naval officer and son of Louis Antoine de Bougainville *
Jean-Pierre de Bougainville Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1 December 1722, in Paris – 22 June 1763, in Loches) was a French writer and the elder brother of the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville. He was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The ...
(1722-1763), French writer, member of the Académie française, brother to Louis Antoine de Bougainville


Ships

* French ship ''Bougainville'', various French ships named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville *
Bougainville-class aviso The ''Bougainville'' class was a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s. They were designed to operate in the remote locations of the French Empire. Design and description The ''Bougainville''-class av ...
, a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s * USS ''Bougainville'' (CVE-100), later CVU-100, a United States Navy ''Casablanca''-class escort aircraft carrier * CMA CGM ''Bougainville'', a motor vessel, container ship of the French company CMA CGM, flagged by France


Literature and film

* ''
Bougainville – Our Island Our Fight ''Bougainville – Our Island Our Fight'' is a 1998 Australian documentary film. It was produced and directed by Wayne Coles-Janess. The film focuses on the guerrillas of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army in Papua New Guinea as they fight a ...
'', a documentary film directed by Wayne Coles-Janess * ''Bougainville'' (novel), a 1981 novel by Dutch author F. Springer * ''The Tetherballs of Bougainville'', a 1998 novel by American author
Mark Leyner Mark Leyner (born 4 January 1956) is an American postmodernist author. Biography Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B. ...


Other uses

* Comte de Bougainville (Count of Bougainville), a French title of nobility held by Louis Antoine de Bougainville * Bougainville Park, Papeete, French Polynesia (France); a park in
Papeete Papeete (Tahitian language, Tahitian: ''Papeete'', pronounced ) is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the France, French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. The Communes of France, commune of Papeete is located on the isl ...


See also

* * * '' Bougainvillea'', a genus of flowering plants native to South America * ''
Bougainvillia ''Bougainvillia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Bougainvilliidae in the class Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal tentacles of their medusae arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and oth ...
'', a genus of hydroids * ''
Bougainvilliidae Bougainvilliidae is a family of marine hydroids in the class Hydrozoa. Members of the family are found worldwide. There are sixteen accepted genera and about ninety-three species. Description Hydroids in this family can be solitary or colonial. ...
'', a familia of hydroids * Bougainville Campaign, a World War II military campaign fought from 1943 to 1945 between the Allies and Japan on and around Bougainville Island **
Bougainville counterattack The Bougainville counterattack (also known as the Second Battle of TorokinaShindo (2016), p. 62.) was an unsuccessful Japanese offensive against the Allied base at Cape Torokina, on Bougainville Island, during the Pacific War of World War II. T ...
, a battle within the campaign during March 1944 * Bougainville Civil War, 1988–1998 *
Bougainville People's Congress The Bougainville People's Congress was a pro-independence organisation and later political party in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. History It was established in the late 1990s as a representative body during the Bougainv ...
, a pro-independence organisation and later political party *
New Bougainville Party New Bougainville Party (NBP) is a political party in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It was founded on 22 April 2005 by John Momis, Governor of Bougainville Province from 1999 to 2005, with former Premier Alexis Sarei amo ...
, founded 2005 {{Disambiguation, geo, surname, ship