Manila folder labelled 'Faraguet'

Containers:

Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 15

Content Summary:

This file contains correspondence and copies of documents relating to the life of Henry Antoine Faraguet (1802–post 1859) who served as a midshipman during Dumont d'Urville's first Astrolabe expedition, 1826–29. Together with Victor-Charles Lottin, Faraguet undertook magnetic inclination and intensity studies in Port Jackson which were later forwarded to the Académie des Sciences. In October 1826, he and Lottin also drafted a 'Plan de l'entrée du Havre de la Princesse Royale (Baie du Roi Georges)' in Western Australia. Dumont d'Urville named Faraguet Island, a low, wooded islet in the Sans Souci Group, New Guinea (3° 08' S., 142° 24' E) in his honour. The file also includes Duyker's English draft entry on Faraguet for the Dictionnaire de Biographie Mauricienne (no. 61, avril 2012, pp. 2345–7)

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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