biography
| name: |
Kerguélen-Trémarec, Yves Joseph de
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pronunciation:
[kairgaylen trayma
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| male
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| lived:
| (1745–97)
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| biography:
| French naval officer and aristocrat, born in Quimper, NW France. On an unsuccessful voyage of exploration seeking Terra Australis, he discovered a group of islands in the South Indian Ocean to which he gave his name (Kerguélen Is, 1772). |
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