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Yves Joseph Marie de Kerguelen-Trémarec (13 February 1734 – 3 March 1797) was a French Navy officer. He discovered the Kerguelen Islands in 1772 during his first expedition to the southern Indian Ocean.
Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, né le 13 février 1734 au manoir de Trémarec, à Landudal (dans l’actuel Finistère), et mort le 3 mars 1797 à Paris, est un officier de marine et un navigateur français du XVIII e siècle.
discovery of Kerguelen Islands. In Kerguelen Islands. …1772 by the French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguélen-Trémarec and later explored by the British explorer Captain James Cook, the archipelago was often frequented by whalers and seal hunters.
Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec 1771–1772 ‘Kerguelen was a man of his century: a mariner of great talent, he was, moreover, a rigorous scientist; his thought focused on every interesting aspect of seafaring’
Overview. Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen. (1737—1797) Quick Reference. (1737–1797), a lieutenant in the French king's navy. Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec first effected two surveys in the Iceland seas. His subsequent project of exploring the southern lands of the Indian ...
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.
Yves Joseph Marie de Kerguelen-Trémarec (13 February 1734 – 3 March 1797) was a French Navy officer. He discovered the Kerguelen Islands in 1772 during his first expedition to the southern Indian Ocean.
