Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux (; 8 November 1737 – 21 July 1793) was a
French Navy
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officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the
governor of Isle de France from 1787 to 1789. He is best known for his exploration of the
Australia
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n coast in 1792 while searching for
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Commodore (rank), Commodore Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (; 23 August 1741 – ) was a French Navy officer and explorer. Having enlisted in the Navy at the age of 15, he had a successful career and in 1785 was appointed to lea ...
.
Early career
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was born to Dorothée de Lestang-Parade and Jean Baptiste Bruny, at
Aix-en-Provence
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in 1739. His father was a member of the ''
Parlement
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'' of
Provence
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. Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was educated at a
Jesuit
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school and reportedly intended to become a priest in the
Society of Jesus
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, but his father intervened and enlisted him in the
French Navy
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in 1754. In the
Battle of Minorca, which secured the
Balearic Islands
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for France, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux served as a midshipman aboard the 26-gun ''Minerve'', and in April 1757 he was commissioned as an
ensign
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. His further naval career as a junior officer was uneventful, and he appears in this period to have done general service in the French Navy.
For a time Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was assistant director of ports and arsenals, after which (1785) he was transferred to command a French Squadron in the
East Indies
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, comprising
''Résolution'' and
''Subtile''. During this service he opened up a new route to
Canton by way of the
Sunda Strait
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and the
Moluccas
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, for use during the south-east monsoon season. In 1787 he was appointed
Governor
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of the French colony of
Isle de France (now
Mauritius
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) and the Isle of Bourbon.
His explorations
In September 1791, the French Assembly decided to send an expedition in search of
Jean-François de La Pérouse, who had not been heard of since leaving
Botany Bay
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in March 1788. Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was selected to command this expedition. He was given a frigate, (500 tons), with Lieutenant Jean-Louis d'Hesmity-d'Auribeau as his second-in-command and Élisabeth Rossel among the other officers. A similar ship, , was placed under
Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec
Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec (12 September 1748 – 6 May 1793) was a French Navy officer. He took part in voyages of exploration in the Pacific Ocean under Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, looking for the lost expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. ...
,
[ with de Trobriand as his second-in-command. A distinguished hydrographical engineer, Beautemps-Beaupré, served as the hydrographer of the expedition.
When the expedition left Brest on 28 September 1791, Entrecasteaux was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral. The plan of the voyage was to proceed to New Holland (]Australia
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), to sight Cape Leeuwin
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Description
A few small islands and rocks, the St Alouarn Islands, extend further in Flinders ...
at its southwest extremity, then to hug the shore closely all the way to Van Diemen's Land
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(Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
), inspecting every possible harbour in a rowing boat, and then to sail for Tonga
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(aka "the Friendly Islands") via the northern cape of New Zealand
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allowing gardener Félix Delahaye to collect live breadfruit
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plants for transport to the French West Indies. D'Entrecasteaux was next to follow La Pérouse's intended route in the Pacific
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. It was thought that La Pérouse had meant to explore New Caledonia
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and the Louisiade Archipelago, to pass through Torres Strait
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, and to explore the Gulf of Carpentaria
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and the northern coast of New Holland.
However, when Bruni d'Entrecasteaux reached Table Bay
Table Bay (Afrikaans: ''Tafelbaai'') is a natural bay on the Atlantic Ocean overlooked by Cape Town and is at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, which stretches south to the Cape of Good Hope. It was named because it is dominated by the fl ...
, Cape Town
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on 17 January 1792, he heard a report that Captain John Hunter (later to be Governor of New South Wales
The governor of New South Wales is the representative of the monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia, Governor-General of Australia at the national level, the governor ...
) had recently seen – off the Admiralty Islands
The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, after the largest island.
These rainforest-cov ...
canoes manned by indigenous people wearing French uniforms and belts. Although Hunter denied this report, and although the Frenchmen heard of the denial, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux determined to make directly to the Admiralty Islands, nowadays part of Papua New Guinea
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, taking water and refreshing his crew at Van Diemen's Land. On 20 April 1792, that land was in sight, and three days later the ships anchored in a harbour, which he named Recherche Bay
Recherche Bay ( ) is an oceanic embayment, part of which is listed on the Australian National Heritage List, National Heritage Register, located on the extreme south-eastern corner of Tasmania, Australia. It was a landing place of the Bruni d'En ...
. For the next five weeks, until 28 May 1792, the Frenchmen carried out careful boat explorations which revealed in detail the beautiful waterways and estuaries in the area.
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was fortunate in having good officers and scientists, most importantly from the exploration point-of-view the expedition's first hydrographical engineer, Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré, who is now regarded as the father of modern French hydrography. The work this officer did in the field was excellent, and his charts, when published in France in 1807, were very detailed. The atlas contains 39 charts, of which those of Van Diemen's Land were the most detailed; they remained the source of the English charts of the area for many years.
Beautemps-Beaupré, while surveying the coasts with Lieutenant Crétin, discovered that Adventure Bay, Tasmania
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The first European to sight the bay was explorer Abel ...
, which had been discovered by Tobias Furneaux
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and named after his ship in 1773, was on an island which was separated from the mainland by a fine navigable channel. On 16 May, d'Entrecasteaux commenced to sail the ships through the channel, and this was accomplished by the 28th. Port Esperance, the Huon River, and other features were discovered, named, and charted, the admiral's names being given to the channel (D'Entrecasteaux Channel
The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania, Australia. The channel is the mouth for the estuaries of the Derwent and the Huon Rivers and empties into the Tasman ...
) and the large island (Bruny Island
Bruny Island is a coastal island of Tasmania, Australia, located at the mouths of the Derwent River and Huon River estuaries on Storm Bay on the Tasman Sea, south of Hobart. The island is separated from the mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux C ...
) separated by it from the mainland.
On 28 May 1792 the ships sailed into the Pacific to search for La Pérouse. On 17 June they arrived off the Isle of Pines, south of New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
. From there, d'Entrecasteaux sailed northward along the western coast of New Caledonia. (The Bruni d'Entrecasteaux reefs at the northwestern end of the New Caledonia Barrier Reef are named for him.) He then passed the Solomon Islands
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along their southern or western coasts, sailed through Saint George's Channel between New Ireland and New Britain
New Britain () is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi Island, Umboi the Dampie ...
, and on 28 July sighted the south-east coast of the Admiralty Islands
The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, after the largest island.
These rainforest-cov ...
. After three days spent in scrutinizing the eastern and northern coastline, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux decided that the rumours he had heard in Table Bay must be false, and he therefore set sail for Ambon, in modern-day Indonesia, where his ships replenished their stores.
Leaving Amboina on 14 October, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux made for Cape Leeuwin
Cape Leeuwin is the most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent, in the state of Western Australia.
Description
A few small islands and rocks, the St Alouarn Islands, extend further in Flinders ...
, the south-western extremity of Australia, to carry out his original instructions of searching southern New Holland for La Pérouse. On 6 December land was sighted near Cape Leeuwin, and named D'Entrecasteaux Point. This event was celebrated by feastings and parties, one result of which was that the smith on board ''Recherche'', Jean-Marie Marhadour over-indulged and died next day from an apoplectic fit. The weather proved boisterous, and the ships failed to find King George Sound
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, originally discovered by Vancouver
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. As they sailed further east, they penetrated numerous islands and dangerous shoals, to which they gave the name ''D'Entrecasteaux Islands'' – later changed to the Recherche Archipelago.
While the Frenchmen were still in that dangerous area, on 12 December a violent storm descended upon them, and both ships were nearly wrecked. Fortunately, however, they found an anchorage where they were able to ride out the worst of the gale. Landings took place here on the mainland, and the locality was named in honour of Legrand, who had spotted the anchorage, and of the ship he was on, ''Espérance''. Beautemps-Beaupré made a hasty survey of the off-lying islands of the archipelago. No water was found, and on 18 December the ships continued eastward to the head of the Great Australian Bight
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There are two definitions for its extent—one by the Internation ...
, but here the coast was found to be even more arid, and the water position more serious.
On 4 January 1793, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was forced to leave the coast at a position near Bruni d'Entrecasteaux Reef and sail direct to Van Diemen's Land. In this decision the French explorer was unfortunate, for if he had continued his examination of the southern coast of New Holland, he would have made all the geographical discoveries that fell to the lot of Bass
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and Flinders a few years later. Then, indeed, a French might well have become a fact.
The ships anchored in Recherche Bay on 22 January, and the expedition spent a period of five weeks in that area, watering the ships, refreshing the crews, and carrying out explorations into both natural history
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and geography
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. Beautemps-Beaupré, in company with other officers, surveyed the northern extensions to Storm Bay – the western extension was found to be a mouth of a river which received the name it was renamed the Derwent River a few months later by the next visitor to this area, Captain John Hayes in ''Duke of Clarence'' and ''Duchess''.
It was probably no coincidence that the d'Entrecasteaux expedition should have spent time investigating that part of Van Diemen's Land, as that region had been recommended for colonization by Henri Peyroux de la Coudrenière in his . Although Peyroux's proposal fell on deaf ears at the time, it may have influenced d'Entrecasteaux's choice of the location to investigate. An inset map of Frederick Henry Bay, the place recommended by Peyroux for a settlement, was included in the map of Van Diemens Land prepared by C. F. Beautemps-Beaupré, the hydrographer with the d'Entrecasteaux expedition.
On 28 February d'Entrecasteaux sailed from Van Diemen's Land towards Tonga
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, sighting New Zealand
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and the Kermadec Islands
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en route. At Tonga, he found that the local people remembered Cook
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* C ...
and Bligh well enough, but knew nothing of La Pérouse. He then sailed back to New Caledonia, where he anchored at Balade. The vain search for La Pérouse then resumed with Santa Cruz, then along the southern coasts of the Solomon Islands, the northern parts of the Louisiade Archipelago, through the Dampier Strait, along the northern coast of New Britain
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and the southern coast of the Admiralty Islands, and thence north of New Guinea
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to the Moluccas.
By this time, the affairs of the expedition had become almost desperate, largely because the officers were ardent royalists and the crews equally ardent revolutionaries. Kermadec had died of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...
in Balade harbour, and on 21 July 1793, d'Entrecasteaux himself died of scurvy
Scurvy is a deficiency disease (state of malnutrition) resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, fatigue, and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, anemia, decreased red blood cells, gum d ...
,[ off the Hermit Islands, part of the ]Bismarck Archipelago
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History
The first inhabitants of the archipela ...
in Papua New Guinea
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.
Commands were re-arranged, with Auribeau taking charge of the expedition, with Rossel in Kermadec's place. The new chief took the ships to Surabaya
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in east Java
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. Here it was learned that a republic had been proclaimed in France, and on 18 February 1794 Auribeau handed his vessels to the Dutch authorities so that the new French Government could not profit by them. Auribeau died a month later and Rossel sailed from Java in January 1795 on board a Dutch ship, arriving at Table Bay
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in April 1795. There his ship sailed unexpectedly with the expedition's papers, leaving him behind, but this vessel was captured by the British. Rossel then took passage on a brig-of-war, but this too was captured by the British. After the Peace of Amiens
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in 1802, all the papers of the expedition were returned to Rossel, who was thus enabled to publish a narrative of the whole enterprise.
Australian places named after him
*Western Australia
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**Point D'Entrecasteaux
Point D'Entrecasteaux is a Peninsula, point on the south coast of Western Australia. The first European sighting was by the Frenchman Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in the 1700s, although there were possible sightings by Dutch navigators from s ...
()
** D'Entrecasteaux National Park ()
*South Australia
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** D'Entrecasteaux Reef ()
*Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
**Bruny Island
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()
**D'Entrecasteaux Channel
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()
**D'Entrecasteaux Monument Historic Site ()
**D'Entrecasteaux River ()
**D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place Historic Site ()
Eponyms
D'Entrecasteaux is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard endemic to Australia, ''Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii
''Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii'', also known commonly as Entrecasteaux's skink, the southern grass skink, the tussock cool-skink, and the tussock skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
Geograp ...
''.[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. .]
See also
* European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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* Middle Island (Western Australia)
References
Sources
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* Douglas, Bronwen, Fanny Wonu Veys & Billie Lythberg (eds). ''Collecting in the South Seas; The Voyage of Bruni d"Entrecasteaux 1791–1794''. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2018
* Duyker, Edward and Maryse (editors and translators) (2001). ''Bruny d’Entrecasteaux: Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791—1793''. Melbourne: Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press. xliii + 392 pp. aperback edition, March 2006,
*Duyker, Edward (2003). ''Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist’s Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755—1834)''. Melbourne: Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press. , Paperback reprint, 2004, , pp. 383 inner, New South Wales Premier's General History Prize, 2004
*Horner FB (1995). ''Looking for La Perouse: D’Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific, 1792–1793''. Carlton South, Victoria: Miegunyah Press. .
*McLaren, Ian F. (1993). ''La Perouse in the Pacific, including searches by d’Entrecasteaux, Dillon, Dumont d’Urville : an annotated bibliography''. (with an introduction by John Dunmore). Parkville, ictoria University of Melbourne Library. .
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*Van Duuren, David; Mostert, Tristan (2007). ''Curiosities from the Pacific Ocean. A remarkable Rediscovery in the Tropenmuseum
The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (previously known as Tropenmuseum () between 1950 and 2023) is an ethnographic museum with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was originally founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1864 under the name ''Koloniaal ...
, Amsterdam: Thirteen Ethnographic Objects from the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux Expedition (1791–1794)''. Amsterdam: Tropenmuseum / Leiden: C. Zwartenkot. .
Further reading
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External links
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