Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville  (1790 - 1842)

Jules Sébastian César Dumont d'Urville was an accomplished naval captain, linguist and botanist when he won approval for a new French Antarctic expedition in 1837. His intellect and curiosity would be a driving force behind an outstandingly successful scientific expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula and Antarctic regions south of Tasmania. Between visits to Hobart he discovered a part of Antarctica he named Adélie Land, after his wife. While in the pack-ice he met a ship of the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes. In Hobart in 1839 and 1840, Dumont d'Urville was an honoured guest of fellow-explorer and colonial governor, Sir John Franklin.